ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

McWhirtle

Okay kiddo, do you know what a poem is? It's like a story but it's shorter and it sounds really nice when you read it out loud.

Well, a mcwhirtle is a type of poem that is also short and silly. It only has four lines and the first two lines rhyme with each other, and the last two lines rhyme with each other.

For example, here's a mcwhirtle:

There once was a cat named Whiskers,
Who loved to play with all sorts of whiskers.
One day he found a big hairy spider,
And ran away as fast as a glider.

See how the first two lines rhyme with each other (Whiskers and whiskers), and the last two lines rhyme with each other (spider and glider)? That's what makes it a mcwhirtle!