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cler⋅i⋅hew

  [kler-uh-hyoo]
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–noun Prosody.
a light verse form, usually consisting of two couplets, with lines of uneven length and irregular meter, the first line usually containing the name of a well-known person.
Origin:
1925–30; named after E. Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956), English writer, its inventor
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cler·i·hew   (klěr'ə-hyōō')   
n.  A humorous verse, usually consisting of two unmatched rhyming couplets, about a person whose name generally serves as one of the rhymes.

[After Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956), British writer.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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clerihew

a light verse quatrain in lines usually of varying length, rhyming aabb, and usually dealing with a person named in the initial rhyme.

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