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A Clerihew is a comic verse consisting of two couplets and a specific rhyming scheme, aabb invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) at the age of 16.  The poem is about/deals with a person/character within the first rhyme.  In most cases, the first line names a person, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person.  

One of the most remembered Clerihew from Bentley's collection is:

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