Write a satirical poem
Get creative and practice your writing skills by writing a clever poem.
Get your pen and paper ready and write a satirical poem to celebrate National Clerihew Day.
A Clerihew is a four-line biographical poem which was invented by English author, Edmund Clerihew Bentley.
There is, however, a criteria to write a Clerihew.
1. It has to be four lines
2. It needs to have rhyming couplets of AA/BB
3. A person’s name has to be in the first line
4. You need to say something about that person
5. It must make you smile
Need a bit more inspiration?
Here is one of Edmund’s famous Clerihews:
Sir Humphry Davy
Abominated Gravy
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium
Write your own Clerihew and share them with us.
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