Canadian ed eration of Poets Dedicated to uniting people and organizations around the world in the global promotion of poets and poetry members | CFPChat | contests & awards | links and education | CFPShop         JOIN THE CFP!         ABOUT CFP         CONTACT CFP SITE MAP Lesson & Exercises - Week 24         News         Poetry Canada         Calendar Get the Canadian Federation of Poets newsletter FREE Clerihew Clerihew is a humorous, pseudo-biographical verse of four lines (quatrain) of uneven length, with the rhyming scheme AABB. Add to this, that the name of the subject usually ends the first line, and the humour of the clerihew is whimsical rather than satiric. This form was invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956). Coming Soon Written by: Tracy Lynn Repchuk

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