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Three Clerihews

By MikeMorris

03 August 2006

Clerihews

Saddam Hussain

Looked quite insane

In that beard.

Weird.

Her Majesty The Queen

Who is never mean

Carries no money.

Funny.

Delia Smith

Can take the pith

From out of fruit.

Cute.

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Hello MM
Written by cynicsid (177 comments posted) 3rd August 2006

I've always wondered what a Clerihew was and certainly till reading these, I could never have spelt it.

Pure nonsense and all the better for it,

Soul Bro' Siddie.
He's the kiddie
That the Clerihews
Amuse.

Beware the Clerihew
Written by patterjack (1201 comments posted) 3rd August 2006

They are almost as insidious as a form as is the Haiku , and as insidious in emotional impact as is the Mondegreen .

I have a nostalgic fondness for the first I ever read , written by the inventor of the form , Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Sir Humphrey Davey
abominated gravy
lived in the odium
of having discovered Sodium

patterjack

Written by MikeMorris (106 comments posted) 3rd August 2006

Many thanks both Sid and Patterjack for the comments.
Shall we have a clerihew jamboree?

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