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The Clerihew Poem

by Roger W Hancock

     Edmund Clerihew Bentley was an English humorist and novelist who lived from July 10th, 1875 to March 30 1956. His first published poetry collection was, “Biography for Beginners,” 1905. That fist book made popular the poetry form now called the Clerihew. He later published two other collections.

     The Clerihew form existed long before E. C. Bentley’s birth, the man for whom it is named. As a youth Abraham Lincoln wrote, “Abraham Lincoln is my name, and with my pen I wrote the same, I wrote in both hast and speed, and left it here for fools to read.”

     The Clerihew has four lines with the first stating who the subject is, continuing to tell something humorous about the subject. The rhyme sequence is, aabb, with no specified number of syllables. Bentley wrote his first “Clerihew” during a lecture while in college, “Sir Humphrey Davy, Abominated gravy, He lived in the odium, Of having discovered sodium.”

     The Clerihew though a rather simple form proves to be in itself an exercise to hone the poet’s skill. Bentley’s first “Clerihew” was whimsical and probably not truth. One should be careful to not demean the subject with an untruth. Clerihew Bentley used a light whimsical untruth that would not be libelous against his subject. Some thought and of course knowledge of the subject is needed for an accurate poetic caricature in a Clerihew poem.

     If the Clerihew form of poetry had a name previously, it has been lost in history. Clerihew Bentley was in the right place and time to have his name immortalized; to the cleric just a title of the poetic form, “Clerihew”.

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