It's just doggerel, not fine poetry.
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Doggerel
Synonyms for "doggerel" (53 found)
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Related words (26)
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8 entriesTranslations
27 translations across 10 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 打油詩 /打油诗 noun (comic or humorous verse)
Dutch
2 entries- kreupelrijm adj (of a crude or irregular construction)
- ulevellenrijm noun (comic or humorous verse)
French
1 entries- vers de mirliton noun (comic or humorous verse)
German
1 entries- Knittelvers noun (comic or humorous verse)
Hungarian
4 entries- formátlan adj (of a crude or irregular construction)
- kötetlen adj (of a crude or irregular construction)
- szabálytalan adj (of a crude or irregular construction)
- fűzfarím noun (comic or humorous verse)
Icelandic
4 entries- illa kveðinn adj (of a crude or irregular construction)
- stirðkveðinn adj (of a crude or irregular construction)
- hnoð noun (comic or humorous verse)
- leirburður noun (comic or humorous verse)
Italian
2 entries- versaiolo adj (of a crude or irregular construction)
- rimeria noun (comic or humorous verse)
Polish
2 entries- wiersz częstochowski adj (of a crude or irregular construction)
- wiersz kalwaryjski adj (of a crude or irregular construction)
Tagalog
1 entries- tulakis noun (comic or humorous verse)
Volapük
1 entries- lupoedot noun (comic or humorous verse)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
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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