A clerihew is a poem that makes some fun, (but not insulting) criticism at a famous person. It has two rhymed couplets, in the pattern
a a b b. Here is an example:
The president is George W. Bush,
Who is happy to sit on his tush,
While sending his armies to fight,
For anything he thinks is right
~~WordNet
heres another example:
Petals grow
Where faries go
In this garden
Magic grows
A clerihew is a humorous, four-line biographical poem that was invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. The lines are often irregular in length and of the AABB form.
One of ECB's early clerihews is as follows:-
John Stuart Mill,
By a mighty effort of will,
Overcame his natural bonhomie
And wrote 'The Principals of Political Economy'.
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