clerihew
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
clerihew /ˈklɛrɪhjuː/
▶noun a short comic or nonsensical verse, typically in two rhyming couplets with lines of unequal length and referring to a famous person.
– origin 1920s: named after the English writer Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who invented it.
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