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With 52 forms, how many poems can you write in one year?
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Jul 8, 2019 at 8:12am
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Week 6 - Clerihew
Form: Clerihew  Open in new Window.

Number of Lines: 4

Rules: 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.


Choices for the Poets to make this week: You may write your poem about a real person or a fictional character.

Example:

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

Copyright © 2004 James Dean Chase



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