^{The Clerihew is a short comical or nonsensical verse. It is typically in two rhyming couplets with lines of unequal length that refer to a famous person. The Clerihew poem came about in the 1920's and is named after Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956). The Clerihew is a biography that makes fun of a famous person.It tends to show the subject of the poem from an unusual point of view. It usually has 4 lines of irregular length and is metered for a comical effect. The end of the first line of a true Clerihew poem will only consist of the subjects name. The purpose of this is to show the skill in being able to rhyme difficult names.The Clerihew poem is not meant to be satirical or mean-spirited towards the famous person, but does seek to show them in an absurd light that is not the norm for other poetry.}