Here are a few of my favorite clerihews by Stephen Fry. Though the form is not metrical, the rhymes are part of the wit.
Elizabeth Barrett
Was kept in a garret.
Her father resented it bitterly
When Robert Browning took her to Italy.
Oscar Wilde
Had his reputation defiled.
When he was led from the dock in tears
He said, "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at two years."
Ted Hughes
Had a very short fuse.
What prompted his wrath
Was being asked about Sylvia Plath.
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