Clerihew

Invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley.

This form is only four lines long. It should be funny and there is no set syllable count or meter. In the first line, you must name a person. (This means the second line ends with something that rhymes with that name.)

Rhyme Scheme: a/a/b/b


EXAMPLE:

"Family Love"
by Anastasia V. Pergakis
(Two clerihew poems, one for my husband and one for my son, combined into one "poem")

Here comes the man I love, Chris
Oh there is no sweeter love than this!
I’d like to choke that man at times
Instead I wrote these silly rhymes.

There is my baby boy, Mason
On wobbly feet he hastens
Then falls down on his face
Oh the laughs I get sitting in this place!