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clerihew

(n): a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person
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about 1 year ago bemmie74 said:

The M-W.com example sentence always cracks me up:
My favorite of Edmund C. Bentley's clerihews is the following: "What I like about Clive
Is that he is no longer alive.
There is a great deal to be said
For being dead."

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