CLERIHEW FORM

 A Clerihew is an English poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley around 1890 at the age of 16. It is presented in two couplets, the first and second lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other (aa/bb). The first line ends with the name of a well known person or character, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with that name. A clerihew should be whimsical.

JOHN WAYNE

I offered a drink to a tired John Wayne

He had recently arrived here in town on a train

Someone told him "You're old and can't cowboy no more"

and with one solid move was laid out on the floor

 DOLLY PARTON

The show featured songs sung by great Dolly Parton

In the audience cheering and lighters were startin'

But one guest was obviously drunken and lewd

Escorted out while the audience and star loudly booed