This form was initiated by Edmund Clerihew Bentley who throughout his life kept churning out Clerihews, the name they ultimately became known by; he had published three collections under the name E. Clerihew.

Shale is fine-grained rock made of silt or wet mud that has been lithified by compaction and cementation.

a dull and low terrenity

Elvis Presley was born in a two-bedroom shotgun in Tupelo, Mississippi.