My friends call me Ash I don’t have much cash I write about writing And about sex scenes that can prove positively exciting
As I may have mentioned before, I enjoy poetry exercises because I believe they help all of us with our writing:
Poetry is a wonderful way to warm up the writing muscles before starting any writing project.
Poetry gets the writer to focus on the strengths and merits of individual words in ways that aren’t usually considered with regular fiction writing.
Poetry can be a lot of fun.To that end, I thought we could look at one of my favourite pieces of fun poetry this month: the clerihew.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley Say his name gently He pioneered this verse form Though critics say there could not be a worse form
The clerihew is a type of verse invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956). Traditionally, the clerihew is a four-line poem made up of two rhyming couplets (aabb). The metre of the clerihew is intentionally, and often ridiculously, irregular. The purpose of the clerihew is to offer a satiric, absurd or whimsical biography of a character.
The Marquis de Sade Liked his punishment hard He was an aristocrat – first class And he liked spanking servant girls on the ass
In the comments box below please feel free to write your own four-line clerihew introducing yourself or introducing one of the characters from your fiction.
