Clerihew is firstly written by Edmund Clerihew Bentley when he was sixteen years old. He lived in 1875 until 1956. Bentley's first collection of verse in this vein was published in 1905 as Biography for Beginners. Further collections appeared in 1929 and in 1939. It was soon after publication of the first volume that the name CLERIHEW became applied to this particular form of light verse.
Clerihew is a humorous pseudo-biographical quatrain, rhymed as two couplets, with line of uneven length more or less in the rhythm of prose. Clerihews have just a few simple rules: they are four lines long; the first and second lines rhyme with each other, and 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; and a clerihew should be funny. That means when you write a clerihew, you can instantly write funny poems about your parents, your teacher, your favorite movie star, your best friend, your pet, or anyone else you can think of. The following is the example of the analysis of clerihews.
Clerihew: Poem 1
1. Type of Poem: Rhymed Verse Forms (Clerihews Poem).
2. Paraphrase: This poem tells about the art teacher whose name is Mr. Shaw. He is very good at paintings, but his paintings are very bad which caused unconciousness.
3. Poetic devices:
a. Rhyme: a - a - b – b
b. Rhythm:
- Line 1 trochaic tetrameter
- Line 2 trochaic pentameter
- Line 3 spondaic tetrameter
- Line 4 trochaic tetrameter
c. Alliteration, onomatopoeia. Repetition, and comparison are not found in this poem.
4. Kinds of stanza: Quatrain because it consist of four lines.
5. Poetic diction:
a. Denotation: All words used are denotation.
b. Ambiguity: awful, fainting.
c. Pun: in the last line “have caused many fainting”.
d. Connotation, allution, parody, repetition, paradox, and irony are not found in this poem.
6. Tone: Humorous.
7. Theme: The power of an art.
8. Symbol: There is no symbol in this poem.
9. Message: We should be careful with the bad things.
10.Comments: This poem can be a good model in teaching our students (junior high school students), because clerihews poem are short, simple, and easy to write.
Clerihew: Poem 2
1. Type of Poem: Rhymed Verse Forms (Clerihews Poem).
2. Paraphrase: This poem tells about the person who doesn’t like rock music.
3. Poetic devices:
a. Rhyme: a - a - b – b
b. Rhythm:
- Line 1 trochaic monometer
- Line 2 monometer
- Line 3 trochaic pentameter
- Line 4 iambic pentameter
c. Alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition, and comparison are not found in this poem.
4. Kinds of stanza: Quatrain because it consist of four lines.
5. Poetic diction:
a. Denotation: All words used are denotation.
b. Pun: in the last line “I much prefer Britney Spears”.
c. Connotation, allution, parody, repetition, Ambiguity, paradox, and irony are not found in this poem.
6. Tone: Humorous.
7. Theme: Music preferences.
8. Symbol: There is no symbol in this poem.
9. Message: We should respect to people’s creativity.
10.Comments: This poem is appropriate for Junior High School level, because clerihews are short, easy to write and can be about any person or character, real or not.
Analyzed by Ni’matuz Zahroh and Bambang Sutaryo
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