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Rated: E · Poetry · Comedy · #1945015

A clerihew for Round 56 of Pond Poetry

His Royal Babyness, George Alexander Louis
Burst out to a world eagerly awaiting for newses
His parents seem awfully calm, cool and collected
Because they know he'll be King, won't have to get elected.

A Clerihew is a comic verse consisting of two couplets and a specific rhyming scheme, aabb invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) at the age of 16. The poem is about/deals with a person/character within the first rhyme. In most cases, the first line names a person, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person.
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