Block Day: Formative Verses

* Open

* J12

* Some new forms
Edward Lear (1812-1888)



  • Clerihew :

      • Jackson Pollock
      • It was a weakness of Voltaire’s
             To forget to say his prayers,
        And one which to his shame
             He never overcame.
      • Noah’s
        Boas
        Kept his hares
        In Pairs.
        ~ Sue Lampi (1994)
      • George Orwell
        Answered the doorbell.
        Big Brother’s Pizza at the door,
        Two with pepperoni, $19.84.
Clerihew Day celebrates the quirky verse form known as the clerihew, as well as the birthday of its inventor, Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956).
Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956)

  • A clerihew with an ABCB rhyme scheme:
    • The ignorant pronounce it Frood,
             To cavil or applaud.
      The Well-informed pronounce it Froyd,
             But I pronounce it Fraud.
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      G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

       

* CWP

* Grammar Review

HW: Work on your CWP

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