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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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All kinds of essays, narratives, stories, encyclopedias, poems, and the like are scrutinized in a mathematical and computational fashion to ferret out the nature of human writing.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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Harbaugh went on for two straight minutes, reciting the poem from memory.Daniel Popper, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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Artificial intelligence has never been more powerful, constantly expanding its litany of flexes — from generating sonnets and fantastical images to believably mimicking emotions, all while churning through mountains of data faster than any human being could.Adriana Lee, WWD, 26 Nov. 2024
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And that a major plot in the novels involves sentient, talking animals that love sonnets and science?Constance Grady, Vox, 20 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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Until then, feel free to send me your best limericks at mlunsford@tennessean.com.Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 15 Feb. 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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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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He is known as the patron saint of bookbinders and wrote an illustrative book of psalms while at the monastery of St. Finnian, according to Discovering Ireland.Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 15 Mar. 2024
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Inside the nave, choirs sang psalms, and the cathedral’s mighty organ thundered back to life in a triumphant interplay of melodies.Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
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Lai Rai, a sleek new bar on Forsyth, is an ode to two of life’s greatest pleasures—natural wine and frozen confections.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
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While jewelry today isn’t hardly as intricate, this exhibition is an ode to craftsmanship and creativity.Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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Tell, yell, hell, hello, elegy, tottle, otology, geology, theology.John McPhee, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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Worm’s visualization of his collection, then, is an unwitting elegy of species pushed to the brink of existence by human pressures.The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025
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“Clerihew.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clerihew. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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