: A Clerihew is a comic verse consisting of two couplets and a specific rhyming scheme, aabb invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) at the age of 16. The poem is about/deals with a person/character within the first rhyme. In most cases, the first line names a person, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person.
One of the most remembered Clerihew from Bentley's collection is:
Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.
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