What is a clerihew?
A clerihew is a poetic form of four lines, biographical, nonsensical, with no specific line length and an AABB rhyming scheme. The first line includes the name of a famous person who the poem is about.
Robert Louis Stevenson, at the grand old age of forty-one, decided didn’t need a birthday, and simply gifted it away!
-Vidya @ LadyInReadWrites
Paul Bunyan the Lumberjack, created the Grand Canyon and the Hills, Black. When he was but a baby bloke, he clapped all the windows broke!
-Vidya @ LadyInReadWrites
July 10th is Clerihew Day, and also listed in my Literary Holidays post here. So I decided to take a poetic turn this bookish summer; and being in the woods, I thought Paul Bunyan an apt addition.
So my bookish summer continues…
So I learned something new from your blog!
thank you Martha!
C.S. Lewis spun quite a yarnia, took us through a wardrobe into Narnia, where we met a lion who was the Lamb, revealing himself as the great I AM.
I had never heard of a clerihew before. I like the image of Paul breaking windows.
That is a wonderful clerihew you spun 🙂