I don't think there's a name for these (but if there is, it's an enormous coincidence that I thought them up as well). They're haiku (except not about nature, so I guess they're senryu) where the first and third lines are single words that rhyme, and the second line defines them both.
They're really fun! You can be creative with the definitions because they have to be brief, and it's interesting to find five-syllable words or phrases that rhyme with each other.
You could get really clever and find words/phrases for the first and third lines that are totally unrelated, but then you relate them somehow with their definitions... oh the possibilities!
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Spontaneously
Sudden; unnecessary
Extraneously
Vocabulary
Words; peace officers
Constabulary
Deoxyribose
DNA; a polymer
Nitrocellulose
Accommodating
Whim fulfilling; making worse
Exacerbating
Freedom of the press
Write what you want; kidnapped girl
Damsel in distress
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