- Doggerel, or
doggrel, is
poetry that is
irregular in
rhythm and in rhyme,
often deliberately for
burlesque or
comic effect. Alternatively, it can mean...
-
appropriate tune is not
always recorded. The
words when read from the page are
doggrel but, when sung to the
correct tune, come over very well indeed. They are...
- (London, 1660, folio)
Wickham Wakened; or, the Quaker's
Madrigall in Rime
Doggrel (1672, quarto). a
diatribe against a
rival practitioner of Wycombe, who...
-
predictions oe [sic]
Robert Nixon,
commonly called the
Cheshire prophet; in
doggrel verse:
published from an
authentic m****cript, ...
Together with Nixon's...
- serio-comic
drama in one act,
printed in Lacy (volume 55). Horæ Jocosæ, or the
Doggrel Decameron,
being ten
facetious tales in verse, to
which are
added some...
- Appendix, in
which is a
Translation of Part of the
first Canto into
Latin Doggrel, London, 1752. Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). "Bacon, Montagu" . Dictionary...
- said, "Hannah
teems with
resplendent beauties, but is
enfeebled by the
doggrel of poor Kit Smart."
Sherbo p. 164
Mounsey p. 264
Smart (1983) p. 156 Smart...
- he
entertained his
colleagues with his
rhyming skills, "the
smoothest doggrel". It is
likely that
during his time in
Paisley his
publication was being...
