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Noun Concept
Categories: Genres of poetry, Biography (genre), Poetic form
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clerihew  Clarihew  clerihews
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A witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person WordNet 3.0
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A witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A clerihew is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem of a type invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. Wikipedia
Whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley Wikidata
A humorous rhyme of four lines with the rhyming scheme AABB, usually regarding a person mentioned in the first line. Wiktionary
Rhyme of four lines, usually regarding a person. Wiktionary (translation)
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`The president is George W. Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his armies to fight, For anything he thinks is right' is a clerihew WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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poem
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Clarihew, clerihews

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