E.C. Bentley / Oh, so intently / invented a rhyme scheme / while rowing a quinquereme.
> able to do almost anything with words … detective novel Trent’s Last Case (1913)
Any examples of other sorts of verse to recommend? (I agree about both Trent and Clerihews.)
Whenever Joe Biden
Emerges from hidin'
He makes some mistake,
Or steps on a rake.
What I remember is the Fragment:
Geography is about Maps
History is about Chaps
I don’t know if that is Bentley or Chesterton.
It's Bentley, from his first clerihew collection, "Biography for Beginners":
The art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about maps,
But Biography is about chaps.
> able to do almost anything with words … detective novel Trent’s Last Case (1913)
Any examples of other sorts of verse to recommend? (I agree about both Trent and Clerihews.)
Whenever Joe Biden
Emerges from hidin'
He makes some mistake,
Or steps on a rake.
What I remember is the Fragment:
Geography is about Maps
History is about Chaps
I don’t know if that is Bentley or Chesterton.
It's Bentley, from his first clerihew collection, "Biography for Beginners":
The art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about maps,
But Biography is about chaps.