Clerihews

(clerihews, invented and made popular by EC Bentley, are, to my mind, a much underrated and underused form of light verse. They comprise four lines, the first being a famous (or infamous) name, the second line rhyming with the name, and the third and fourth rhyming with each other. Meter rarely enters into it, and the content should preferably contain a grain of truth, and a big dollop of absurdity.) Here's a trio of my more recent efforts:

Michelangelo
Never mastered the banjo.
The demands of the Renaissance
Left him neither the time nor the patience.

DH Lawrence
Had no abhorrence
Of the sexual act.
He quite enjoyed it, in fact.

Queen Victoria
Disliked euphoria.
Though the Empire enthused
She was not amused.