It's just doggerel, not fine poetry.
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Doggerel
Synonyms for "doggerel" (59 found)
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Noun(1 words)
bad poetry
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Noun(3 words)
crude versedoggerel versehumorous verse
doricdysphemisticfarcicalgracelessgrosshalting metersharshhudibrastic verseimproperimpurein bad tasteinconcinnateinconcinnousincorrectindecorous
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inelegantinfelicitouslame verseslimping meterslowmacaronicmacaronic versemacaronicsnonsense verseoutlandishparodicrudesatiricsatiricaltastelessuncourtlyuncouthundignifieduneuphoniousunfelicitous
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True Wit has ſeen its best days long ago, / It ne're look'd up, ſince we were dipt in Show: / When Senſe in Dogrel Rimes and Clouds was loſt, / And Dulneſs flouriſh'd at the Actors coſt.
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Taffy drew a long breath into his manly bosom, and kept it there as he read this characteristic French doggerel (for so he chose to call this touching little symphony in ère and ra).
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As he marched he sang a bit of doggerel in a high and quavering voice: / "Sing a song 'a vic'try, / A pocketful 'a bullets, / Five an' twenty dead men / Baked in a—pie."
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