Meaning Of The Word Clerihew

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clerihew in American English
a humorous, quasi-biographical poem made up of two rhymed couplets with lines of varying length and meter
noun: a light verse form, usually consisting of two couplets, with lines of uneven length and irregular meter, the first line usually containing the name of a well-known person

clerihew in British English
noun: a form of comic or satiric verse, consisting of two couplets of metrically irregular lines, containing the name of a well-known person

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