Ironic Happening (Clerihew)

Vincent Van Gogh
abhorred smelly roe,
but was born on the coast
where he happily did boast.

© Copyright 2009 By: Italian Stallion

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A Clerihew is a comic verse consisting of two couplets and a specific rhyming scheme, aabb invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) at the age of 16. The poem is about/deals with a person/character within the first rhyme. In most cases, the first line names a person, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person.

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