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noun • a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person | ||||||||
| 32% | 9 | A playfully humorous quatrain, often biographical | ||||||
noun • a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person | ||||||||
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noun • A poem, similar to a villanelle, that comprises a series of quatrains, the second and fourth lines of each stanza repeated as the first and third lines of the next. | ||||||||
Type Of Light Verse Quatrain Crossword Clue
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CLERIHEW which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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CLERIHEW
Updated: October 10, 2023
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