Sir Humphry Davy Detested gravy. He lived in the odium Of having invented sodium.
We may not have holorimes in English, but we do have tricks that the French don’t have. Clerihews, for instance. Named after their deviser, one E. Clerihew Bentley, an English journalist, they are pithy poems that always start with someone’s name and purport, in just four lines, to convey the salient facts of the subject’s life. To wit:
Sir Humphry Davy
Detested gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having invented sodium.
