Satire Poetry posted July 28, 2016 | Chapters: | ...418 419 -420- 421... |
A Double Clerihew
A chapter in the book Little Poems
Today's Politics
by Treischel
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Just some political observations based on convention viewing.
This poem is a Clerihew.
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. The last two couplets usually contain a humorous or satirical statement. No meter requirement.
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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. The last two couplets usually contain a humorous or satirical statement. No meter requirement.
This picture from two Yahoo images.
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