July 10: Clerihew Day (unofficial).
The birthday of Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956),
inventor of the clerihew, has been designated "Clerihew Day" by the man's many followers.
The clerihew, a wholly frivolous poetic form,
is a four-line verse adhering to the rhyme scheme AABB.
The first line consists of a personal name,
while those that follow traditionally are, or purport to be, biographical in nature.
Little, if any, attention is paid to meter.
example:
Dr. Allardyce Hurlbutt
Gave clerihews a whirl, but
The result was only madness
And unutterable badness.
1 comment:
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