Many poets of early American literature wrote rhymed verse. Rhymed verse poses a challenge to a poet and teaches a kind of discipline. A clerihew, a poetic form, was invented almost two hundred years after Wheatley's death, but it is an excellent example of a poetic form that contains rhymed verses. Clerihews consist of two couplets with lines of uneven length and irregular meter. Line one rhymes with line two, and line three rhymes with line four. The first line of the poem usually contains the name of a well-known person.
Write your own clerihew using a well-known person in history, entertainment, politics, or sports. You must rhyme the appropriate lines.