clerihews

noun

plural of clerihew
as in pastorales

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  1. psalms
  2. poems
  3. epigrams
  4. sonnets
  5. limericks
  6. odes
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  • Psalm 23 is numbered Psalm 22 in the Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate because of differences in how the psalms are divided and numbered.
    — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Because the psalms were originally accompanied by instruments, scholars’ best guess is that selah was some sort of musical marking.
    — Drew Goins, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
Definition of psalms
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  • The prolific and acclaimed writer and activist used his liberal beliefs and his agrarian roots in Kentucky to craft novels, poems and essays connecting the natural world to humankind.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • This beautiful retrospective volume shows a poet developing steadily, from the graceful descriptions and encoded trauma of the poems from the 1990s through the loosening music and political engagement of the books of the last ten years.
    — Craig Morgan Teicher, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of poems
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  • Johnson is the author of the epigrams, but Boswell is very much the co-author.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 27 May 2026
Definition of epigrams
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  • People can and should be skeptical about the sonnets written about starting NFL quarterbacks every offseason, when no one is getting sacked and almost everyone looks good.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026
  • In his sonnets, Shakespeare pairs was with glass, and warmed with disarmed.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
Definition of sonnets
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  • The study picked 10 commercial large language models by top tech companies — including Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI — and asked the AI systems to make critical pamphlets, write limericks, give reasons if someone should join protests, and more.
    — Didi Tang, Fortune, 16 July 2026
Definition of limericks
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  • My favorite films in the fest so far can all be read as warm-hearted odes to human intimacy, intelligence, and grace.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026
  • This is a classic stair-step uptrend, the kind the poets of Ancient Greece composed odes to and bards of the north told tales about around the fire in days of old.
    — Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of odes
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“Clerihews.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clerihews. Accessed 6 Oct. 2026.

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