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A clerihew ( ) is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem of a type invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. The first line is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person, and the remainder puts the subject in an absurd light or reveals something unknown or spurious about the subject. The rhyme scheme is , and the rhymes are often forced. The line length and metre are irregular. Bentley invented the clerihew in school and then popularized it

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