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Why has a 'clerihew' been given that name?

Question #150774. Asked by odo5435.
Last updated Mar 11 2024.
Originally posted Mar 11 2024 10:36 AM.

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A clerihew is a short poem. This type of poem receives its designation from the middle name of it's originator: Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956).
Bentley's first clerihew was said to have been written when he was sixteen, as he sat in science class:

Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered Sodium.

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Mar 11 2024, 2:13 PM
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