Clerihew is
a form of comic verse named after its inventor, Edmund Clerihew Bentley. It
consists of two metrically awkward couplets, and usually presents a
ludicrously uninformative 'biography' of some famous person whose name appears
as one of the rhymed words in the first couplet:
Geoffrey
Chaucer Could hardly have been coarser,
But this
never harmed the sales Of his Canterbury Tales.
