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<p>New page: A clerihew is a biographical and whimsical verse consisting of two couplets and a specific rhyming scheme, usually aabb. The poem names a well-known person /character who is introduced wit...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>A clerihew is a biographical and whimsical verse consisting of two couplets and a specific rhyming scheme, usually aabb. The poem names a well-known person /character who is introduced within the first line. The lines are irregular in length.<br /> <br /> In 1990, the Ringing World ran a competition for Clerihews about ringers. Below is one of the submissions.<br /> <br /> ''The composer, Plutonium Cox,&lt;br&gt;<br /> ''could get music from the method &quot;Fort Knox&quot;;''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ''He invents elementary lines, which he peals away,''&lt;br&gt;<br /> ''but won't leave the table, and call it a day.''<br /> <br /> GACJ<br /> <br /> <br /> Additional clerihews are welcome here:<br /> <br /> [[Category: Ringing Poems]]</div>

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