(1) A witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person
(1) If you don't know what a u2018 clerihew u2019 is, I will explain next week, with another example - perhaps about David Beckham.
(2) The literary form, the clerihew , was invented by a schoolboy, all about Sir Humphrey Davy who lived with the odium of having discovered sodium.
(3) There are also some laughs in the chapter on clerihews .
(4) Much of the lightest verse of Rochester or Buckingham has as sharp a wit as one of E. C. Bentley's clerihews .