verse vs clerihew

verse and clerihew both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
verse	Yes	No	Yes	No
clerihew	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, clerihew is a hyponym of verse; that is, clerihew is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than verse:

verse: a piece of poetry
clerihew: a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person

Other hyponyms of verse include doggerel, doggerel verse, jingle, limerick.

verse (noun)	clerihew (noun)
a piece of poetry	a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person
a line of metrical text
literature in metrical form

verse (verb)	clerihew (verb)
familiarize through thorough study or experience
compose verses or put into verse