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Edited by Dava Sobel NOTE: A clerihew is a four-line poetic format invented in 1905 by Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who wrote humorous rhymes about all manner of persons, making frivolous fun of their names.
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Melissa Dehner, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2021
Easy to write and fun to read, entrants were asked to write a clerihew that describes a famous scientist or other person, or event closely associated with fire.
—William Gurstelle, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2011
Melissa Dehner, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2021
Easy to write and fun to read, entrants were asked to write a clerihew that describes a famous scientist or other person, or event closely associated with fire.
—William Gurstelle, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2011
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clerihew
Noun
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The title, from a poem by the Tohono O’odham linguist Ofelia Zepeda, clings like juniper on skin.—
Petala Ironcloud,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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Fallen blossoms whisper on the damp earth, a fleeting poem of transience.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
Noun
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But in those years, Shakespeare would produce a bounty of plays, sonnets and poems that have been studied, modernized, adapted, saturized and lionized for decades.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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Read: Let our critic guide you through the power and paradox of an old-school sonnet.—
Natasha Frost,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Her poems of that era — sonnets, epigrams, eminently quotable snippets of rhymed gossip — pulse with the dynamism and attitude of the modern city.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Throughout, Snook hams for laughs, turning Wilde’s witticisms and epigrams into slapstick.—
Christian Lewis,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Until then, feel free to send me your best limericks at mlunsford@tennessean.com.—
Mackensy Lunsford,
The Tennessean,
15 Feb. 2024
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There’s a person writing beautiful custom poems that are sort of dirty limericks.—
Emily Leibert,
Curbed,
2 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Elongated and paved with bricks, the path is a closed form, a kind of physical villanelle that thwarts the experience of continuity or the feeling of finitude.—
Hamilton Cain,
BostonGlobe.com,
2 Mar. 2023
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Susan Kinsolving’s villanelle obsessively circles the same two rhymes, keeping pace with the anxiety of a mind trying to cope.—
Clare Bucknell,
The New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2020
Noun
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The funeral of Pope Francis began with a short musical chant and psalm spoken in Latin after an open Book of the Gospels had been placed on top of Pope Francis’ closed coffin carried by pallbearers from inside St. Peter’s and placed on a red carpet on the edge of the church steps.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
26 Apr. 2025
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The faithful will recite several religious verses, including psalm 22, ‘The Lord is my Shepherd,’ during the service.—
Caitlin Danaher,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Tour the historic penthouse that is an ode to Old Hollywood glamour.—
Lisa Boone,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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All of the 470 guestrooms and suites have been redesigned and are an ode to the spirit of Madrid.—
Angelina Villa-Clarke,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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The title is borrowed from Elizabeth Alexander’s fourth collection persona poems, historical narratives, jazz riffs, sonnets, elegies, and a sequence of ars poetica which examines the Black experience through the lens of the slave rebellion on the Amistad and nineteenth-century American art.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Eephus is an elegy, but with just the barest hint of sentimentality—a shrugging send-off that simultaneously cares deeply about America’s pastime.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Clerihew.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clerihew. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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