The clerihew is a biographical and whimsical verse consisting of two couplets and a specific rhyming scheme, usually aabb. The poem names a well-known person /character who is introduced within the first line.
Sir Garifield Sobers
In one over
Hit six fours
Amidst spectators’ roar!
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Sir Garified Sobers
In one over
Hit six sixes
Amidst spectators’ applause!
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God has sent you, sister
for us, brothers’ immense pleasure
to no less a measure
than a golden treasure!
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Against Sir Donald Bradman
There was body line bowling-inhuman.
Now we have a legalized bouncer
Human, clothing the tiger very nicer!
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