The Clerihew

What's a Clerihew?

Four short lines about someone,
Famous now or dead and gone.
A pair of couplets for this game,
The first line is your victim’s name.


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EDISON

Thomas Alva Edison
Invented the bulb with discipline.
Without the Wizard of Menlo Park
We’d all be living in the dark.



EINSTEIN

Albert Einstein
Had a relatively brilliant mind.
If you should doubt or ever dare to
He could simply mc² you.



MONET

The water lilies of Monet
Drift upon a canvas bay.
A master of his profession,
He made a good Impression.



T.S. ELIOT

Eliot was under the delusion
That everything's an allusion.
Each line from T.S.
Requires a P.S.



© Charles Ghigna