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Clerihews


Clerihews' 4 lines:
· Our English teacher, Frank ←· 1st line names a person
· Sleeps in a bank ←· 2nd line rhymes with the name
· Once he said, "I'll sleep all day and also tomorrow"
· "I am so tired, I may never wake up," he said, filled with sorrow.
      ↑·3rd & 4th lines are longer & funny, & rhyme with each other.

Justin Bieber
never has fever
because he brushes his hair away from his face
he's the perfect boyfriend, why he even has grace.

The enemy of Harry Potter
Was a scheming plotter.
I can't tell you what he's called; I'd be ashamed
To name "he who must not be named."
 
The people of Spain think Cervantes
Equal to half-a-dozen Dantes;
An opinion resented most bitterly
By the people of Italy.
 
 
More info:
· The 1st clerihew was in written in 1905 by E. Clerihew Bentley.