- They are four lines long.
- The first and second as well as the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other.
- The first line names a person, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person.
- A clerihew should be humerous.
Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.
--Edmund Clerihew Bentley
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