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Edited by Dava Sobel NOTE: A clerihew is a four-line poetic format invented in 1905 by Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who wrote humorous rhymes about all manner of persons, making frivolous fun of their names.
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Melissa Dehner, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2021
Easy to write and fun to read, entrants were asked to write a clerihew that describes a famous scientist or other person, or event closely associated with fire.
—William Gurstelle, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2011
Melissa Dehner, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2021
Easy to write and fun to read, entrants were asked to write a clerihew that describes a famous scientist or other person, or event closely associated with fire.
—William Gurstelle, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2011
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As the Cure’s front man and primary songwriter, Smith’s never been shy about drawing blatant lyrical inspiration from his favorite books and poems.Chris Stanton, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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Co-written with The Office executive producer Ben Silverman, The Night Before Christmas at Dunder Mifflin is described as a comedic retelling of the classic poem, featuring a visit from Steve Carell’s Michael Scott as Santa and narrated by Baumgartner’s Kevin Malone.Marc Berman, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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People who spend the day after a date writing sonnets in their Notes app.Olivia Petter, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2024
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According to Open Source Shakespeare, a web page containing all of the bard’s plays, poems and sonnets, there are 884,421 words in the entire works of Shakespeare.David Hodari, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
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On his plane plastered with Trumpian epigrams, Vance makes the case for Trump’s second-term vision of enhanced executive power.Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
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No one could tell the clock by him; no one could quote an epigram of his; no one could ever remember his being a friend of their daddy—or even their granddaddy.E. L. Doctorow, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
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There’s a person writing beautiful custom poems that are sort of dirty limericks.Emily Leibert, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2024
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Instead, what we’re served feels more like dirty limericks delivered at an excruciating pace by a bore with bad breath.Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
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Elongated and paved with bricks, the path is a closed form, a kind of physical villanelle that thwarts the experience of continuity or the feeling of finitude.Hamilton Cain, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
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Susan Kinsolving’s villanelle obsessively circles the same two rhymes, keeping pace with the anxiety of a mind trying to cope.Clare Bucknell, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2020
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According to Francisco, the composers represented no less than 30 print collections of solo songs, cantatas, motets, polyphonic works, settings for psalms and masses, a magnificat, a vespers service, a dozen sonatas, and scores for nine operas and other staged works.Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
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A little less than half these psalms are attributed to King David, about a third are anonymous, and the rest are attributed to a variety of authors.Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2023
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Fittingly, his outfit was an ode to a jab from one of his wife's costars.Julia Moore, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
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In his new book of poems, Quesada seamlessly blends intimate confessions with odes to surreal paintings.James Factora, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
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Working with longtime collaborators John Collins and Nicolas Bragg, the funk-rock elegies and New Romantic jaunts turn brittle and deliberate.Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
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And then on March 29, Swift published an elegy for Partridge.Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2024
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“Clerihew.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clerihew. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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