Poetic Form
Clerihew
Invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1890). A comic miniature form; the person's name always appears in the first line.
Definition
A humorous four-line biographical verse about a named person, rhyming AABB with deliberately irregular metre.
Example
'Sir Humphry Davy / Abominated gravy. / He lived in the odium / Of having discovered sodium.'