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DOGE Clerihew

Title: DOGE Clerihew

Begin Poem:

DOGE Elon Musk
Was quite brusque
As he slashed and burned
Becoming the super-government.

End Poem
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The Clerihew, introduced by Edmund Clerihew Bentley, is a four-line satirical statement about some famous person. The first line names that person, and the second line provides a rhyming description of the subject. The third and fourth lines rhyme with each other as they expand on that description, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/1096-clerihew/

Clerihew is a type of epigram named for and invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) when he was a schoolboy; the very first Clerihew was written in science class when apparently his mind was wandering from the subject. The form quickly gained popularity among his fellow students but has later been utilized and published by such recognized poets W. H. Auden. The Clerihew mocks the famous and those in authority through a humorous perspective. It is often deliberately clumsy and could be put in the burlesque genre.
The elements of the Clerihew are:
1. satirical poetry, an epigram.
2. often metered, written in iambic dimeter, but can be expanded using the rhythm of normal speech.
3. a single quatrain.
4. a mocking epigram of someone (usually famous or in authority) The first line is the title and the name of a person whom the epigram will mock.
5. the second line rhymes with the name of the subject.
6. rhymed, rhyme scheme aabb


http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/clerihew.html

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.

Example #1
Garfield the cat
On his rear he sat.
Eating lasagna galore
All about the decor.

Copyright © 2000 James & Marie Summers

Example #2
The Road Runner
always almost a goner;
when attacked in manner dread,
Wile E. suffers intended fate instead ....

Copyright © 2004 Alan McAlpine Douglas

Example #3
Star Trek's frowning Klingon Worf
challenges a squeamish metamorph
to eating a wormlike gagh dinner;
Worf of course was the winner!

Copyright © 2004 Diana Dalton

Example #4
Corporal Klinger,
M.A.S.H.'s best ringer
in dress, heels and sneer,
won "Kook of the Year."

Copyright © 2004 James Dean Chase


http://www.rainbowcommunications.org/velvet/forms/Clerihew.pdf

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