| LC control no. | sh 85026987 |
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| Topical heading | Clerihews |
| See also | Poetry |
| Found in | Wikipedia, Dec. 27, 2011 (A clerihew is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley; A clerihew has the following properties: "It is biographical and usually whimsical, showing the subject from an unusual point of view; it pokes fun at mostly famous people; it has four lines of irregular length and metre (for comic effect); the rhyme structure is AABB; the subject matter and wording are often humorously contrived in order to achieve a rhyme, including the use of phrases in Latin, French and other non-English languages; the first line contains, and may consist solely of, the subject's name) Harmon, W. A handbook to literature, c2009 (Clerihew: A form of light verse invented by and named for Edmund Clerihew Bentley. In its proper form, the clerihew concerns an actual person, whose name makes up the first line of a quatrain with a strict aabb rhyme scheme but no regularity of rhythm or meter) The new Princeton handbook of poetic terms, 1994: p. 156 (Among the important types of light verse as defined by technique are limericks, clerihews, and double dactyls; the clerihew is the most anarchic, with its formalized irregularity) The new Princeton encyc. of poetry and poetics, 1993 (Clerihew. A form of light verse which consists of two couplets that purport to give biographical information about famous people; the lines are of unequal length and the rhymes are often eccentric) |
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