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Cleri Who's Who
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Four lines rhyming AABB - scansion, rhythm, metre and all that malarkey is as random as-u-like. Oh yes - the featured subject, usually a person, is mentioned in the first line.
Here's a full and frank(ly better) intro by Thos along with some that were made earlier.
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Alan Bennett
Wrote about people who say "’Ot, ennit?"
Unlike Enid Blyton
Whose characters' pronunciation was always right-on
Lee Perry
Was influential in the development of reggae and dub, particularly in Jamaica, and was diametrically opposite in style to Mungo Jerry,
Whose advocacy of drink-driving
Was perhaps what kept an otherwise promising career from thriving
Rudolf Diesel
Had a stressful life as an engineer and thus turned to lecturing with the aid of a blackboard and easel
He eliminated the need for a spark plug found in the earlier internal combustion engine design of Nikolaus Otto
And instead used it for cheap thrills whenever he was blotto
Dmitri Shostakovich
Wrote symphonies and pieces for string quartets for which (... unfinished sentence alert)
Zoltán Kodály It must be
Hidden textWould die-y.
(So says Rosie) would die-y.
Fact: my father (who worked in BBC Radio) made a telephone request to the BBC Sheet Music library for "Could I But Express In Song" (Composer unknown) and received a memo back a few days later reporting that no record could be found of "Kodály: Buttocks-pressing Song".
[Kim] What I particularly love about that anecdote is the window it gives us into the mental world of whoever took down your father's request.
Avogadro
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