What does "clerihew" mean?

A humorous rhyme of four lines with the rhyming scheme AABB, usually regarding a person mentioned in the first line.

What is a synonym for "clerihew"?

Common synonyms include: ballad, bucolic, dirge, elegy, epic, epigram.

Pronounced //ˈklɛɹɨˌhjuː//.

/ˈklɛɹɨˌhjuː/ noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Noun

1
A humorous rhyme of four lines with the rhyming scheme AABB, usually regarding a person mentioned in the first line.
"CLERIHEW CONTEST. CNV announces a clerihew contest, with the best examples to be published in this newsletter."
2
Alternative letter-case form of clerihew. alt-of
"This form was initiated by Edmund Clerihew Bentley who throughout his life kept churning out Clerihews, the name they ultimately became known by; he had published three collections under the name E. Clerihew."
3
a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person wordnet

"CLERIHEW CONTEST. CNV announces a clerihew contest, with the best examples to be published in this newsletter."

Named after English humourist and novelist Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956), who invented the rhyme.