Today is National Poetry Day and so – as Shane and I continue to read the epic poetry of Milton, consider its impact on Forde’s work, and prepare exciting new ventures – to celebrate we thought we’d share this wonderful clerihew composed as a gift by our witty and talented friend Donna Maria Alexander.
A clerihew is defined as a humorous verse, usually consisting of two unmatched rhyming couplets with the scheme aa-bb, about a person whose name generally serves as one of the rhymes.
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Donna Maria Alexander is an Irish Research Council postgraduate scholar conducting a doctoral thesis on Chicana Poetry in the School of English and the Department of Hispanic Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. Why not visit her Americas Studies website to find out more!
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