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National Clerihew Day
July 10 of each year celebrates National Clerihew Day in the United States. Invented by Edmund Clerihew Bently, a clerihew is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem.
In the year 1905, Bently wrote one of his best known which is:
Sir Christopher Wren
Said, “I am going to dine with some men
If anyone calls
Say I am designing St. Paul’s.
“A clerihew has the following properties:
July 10 of each year celebrates National Clerihew Day in the United States. Invented by Edmund Clerihew Bently, a clerihew is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem.
In the year 1905, Bently wrote one of his best known which is:
Sir Christopher Wren
Said, “I am going to dine with some men
If anyone calls
Say I am designing St. Paul’s.
“A clerihew has the following properties:
- It is biographical and usually whimsical, showing the subject from an unusual point of view; it pokes fun at mostly famous people
- It has four lines of irregular length and metre (for comic effect)
- The rhyme structure is AABB; the subject matter and wording are often humorously contrived in order to achieve a rhyme, including the use of phrases in Latin, French and other non-English languageshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerihew#cite_note-2
- The first line contains, and may consist solely of, the subject’s name.”
(Wikipedia)
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