This blog uses a clerihew of mine about Dorothy Parker. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast in Bed] Reference
Is the leading of fashion. mike replied to comment from clerihew. From Wordnik.com. [Freshwater: Yet another student and yet another cross - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
I wrote this clerihew about a week ago, but hesitated in posting it. From Wordnik.com. [Celebretoary Clerihew] Reference
J.R.R. Tolkien perfectly summed up the critical reaction to his fiction in a clerihew. From Wordnik.com. [The little old daddy from Arizona] Reference
Paul Griffin describes A Christmas Carol in a clerihew that has as its first quatrain. From Wordnik.com. [‘GIRL WITH EVERYTHING ASKS FOR MOOR’ — Witty Summaries of ‘Othello’ and Other Classics, Edited by E. O. Parrott « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
I was therefore already familiar with the categorical imperative, not least in Auden's rather fine clerihew. From Wordnik.com. [Free Software and the Categorical Imperative] Reference
Bentley composed the first clerihew about Sir Humphrey Davy, the chemist credited with isolating and naming aluminum. From Wordnik.com. [And Today Is… - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
But one thing is certain: counting hands is a medieval way to resolve that question, relying more on the concept of ‘might makes right’ than any rationality or logic. clerihew replied to comment from Chip Poirot. From Wordnik.com. [The perfect phrase - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Note that the Dennis family has moved out of the district on account of pressure brought to bear on their children, mostly in the schools and some of it from teachers and coaches. clerihew replied to comment from Marion Delgado. From Wordnik.com. [Freshwater: Yet another student and yet another cross - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
July 10 is clerihew Day, marking the birth date in 1875 of Edmund clerihew Bentley, the British writer who invested a four-line rhyming verse, usually biographical in nature and resembling a limerick, that came to be known as a “clerihew.”. From Wordnik.com. [And Today Is… - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
I started my clerihew Mona Lisa -- then came to a dead stop. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 2] Reference
Check out Miss Conduct's clerihew contest from last year (I got third place!) or our very own. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Harding's Shapely Prose] Reference
Great guest clerihew: Kevin Spacey/Has a face we/All know from the big screen/Or if we dogwalk on the park green. From Wordnik.com. [West End Whingers] Reference
If clyster, clonic, chrestomathy, cidevant, clerihew, and clepsydra are "known to the average literate person," then I can only be thankful that VERBATIM is a quarterly so I'll have time to look up all the words. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 3] Reference
Start with the basics of “what happened when, and omit any objections you have to “Darwinism,” “naturalism,” or how real scientists behave. clerihew. From Wordnik.com. [BioLogos' Falk on Disco's Meyer - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
And here’s a poem about the clerihew, invented by Edmund clerihew Bentley and typically about a specific person: “E.C. Bentley/Quite accidently/Invented this verse form of wit/And this is it.”. From Wordnik.com. [E.O. Parrott’s Witty Guide to the Different Kinds of Poetry « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
Amen to that, but don’t you wonder how many of these “local” cases don’t get fully reported because there’s nobody in the area dedicated enough to put in this amount of work? dogmeatib replied to comment from clerihew. From Wordnik.com. [Freshwater: Yet another student and yet another cross - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
I, as a clerihew. From Wordnik.com. [But What I Really Want to Be is a Couplet] Reference
This demands, I think, a clerihew. From Wordnik.com. [Weblogs] Reference
11:41 am - Not clerihew, nor quatrain, nor haiku. From Wordnik.com. [Not clerihew, nor quatrain, nor haiku...] Reference
11:41 am: Not clerihew, nor quatrain, nor haiku... - 4 comments. From Wordnik.com. [April 2003] Reference
A clerihew is, so I'm told, "a whimsical four-line biographical poem. From Wordnik.com. [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
Edit clerihew said. From Wordnik.com. [Freshwater: Yet another student and yet another cross - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Tags: clerihew, poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Celebretoary Clerihew] Reference
Haiku, clerihew, limerick, sonnet, free verse. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : Announcing the My Little Pony Memorial Poetry Contest] Reference
94) 10 literary terms you might not know (clerihew anyone?): http://is. gd/qchV. From Wordnik.com. [101 Writing Links: for writers and authors - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn] Reference
Although it does list unusual, obscure, and preposterous words, it also lists many that are not (clyster, cloaca, clabber, clonic, claqueur, cimmerian, cicada, chrestomathy, cidevant, cist, clerihew, clepsydra -- all words known to the average literate person). From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 2] Reference
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