How To Use Doggerel In A Sentence
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A popular bit of doggerel underlined their usual futility in this fashion: ‘Washington, first in war, first in peace, last in the American League.’
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Both doggerel and fourteeners appear in the quaint productions called _Three Ladies of London_, etc.; but by this time the decasyllable began to appear with them and to edge them out.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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If this is not done, as in what we call doggerel rhyme, an effect of grotesque is universally produced, to the ruin of serious poetic effect.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
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Verbal abuse and insulting ditties, ballads, limericks, and other doggerel had long been directed at the monarch, his ministers, close family, and mistresses as well as at the elites of the kingdom by their social inferiors.
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At that time the eighteen-year-old Victoria's feminine virules of sympathy and beauty were proclaimed in doggerel verse to the street ballad-reading public.
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This is the type of truly bad language-mangling doggerel written by old ladies that appears on the letters pages of local newspapers.
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Their cries and shouting broke their doggerel rhythm into a chaos of shouts in which the words Truth and Rupert were most prominent.
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His education at Gonzaga ranged from the classics to Irish doggerel and limericks, which he could quote appropriately with astonishing effect.
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I always made sure that it was filled with the finest comic doggerel, epigrams, and songs of a light-hearted nature.
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It was sometimes amusing or even witty doggerel, but doggerel, and everyone knew about his voice.
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I could never understand why such abominable and silly doggerel as ‘Casey at the Bat’ ever became the canonical poem of both American baseball and the normalcy of failure in general.
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7: 57: Thousands of tone-deaf Swiss croon along to their national anthem, which starts promisingly but then lapses into an introspective doggerel.
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A doggerel, not really a poem, it's part of the Real Mother Goose Rhymes.
ABSOLUTE ZERO
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The album's lyrics are not even good enough to be complimented as doggerel, more Neil Lennon than John Lennon.
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Afterwards, he sits on the city hall steps reciting doggerel verses on the vagaries of the day's decisions.
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He turned his attention to abuses in Church and State, which he lashed with caustic satire, conveyed in short doggerel rhyming lines peculiar to himself, in which jokes, slang, invectives, and Latin quotations rush out pell-mell.
A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
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He does have some choice words about Wagner, which include such gems as "boniest doggerel of sounds I ever endured," and "blundering, boggling, baboon-blooded stuff.
The Skills to Pay the Bills
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And thanks to the exigencies of the English syllabus I was soon introduced to better verse on this subject than the doggerel of the anonymous necrologist of St Mary's.
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As it is, the prose passages are prosaic and the rap doggerel is merely tedious.
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It is just an unmetrical doggerel written in an incorrect language.
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Before Ali left, he'd hugged and kissed them all and made up an original piece of doggerel for each.
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For most of the 18th century, little was published beyond a few broadsheets containing topical doggerel allied to better-known folksongs, and until the advent of ballad opera there was little by way of popular theatre.
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The following doggerel say that it is a tragedy.
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She wrote well and often corresponded with friends in doggerel verse.
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But, fortunately, there's a med (gabapentin), and there's physical therapy, which combined have delivered me to Level 5, where I write from now and where the pain, pardon the doggerel, is more reminding than blinding.
Carla Seaquist: A Trek Through Cancer
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The Epilogue to The Tempest has been derided as doggerel, literally interpreted as Shakespeare's farewell to the stage, and supposed to be an interpolation by another hand.
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A few lines of rhyming doggerel don't count as poetry.
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She wrote well and often corresponded with friends in doggerel verse.
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The difference between Doggerel and Motherese is clearest when it comes to deixis, which is the technical name for sentences that point out specific bits of information, such as “This is a ball” or “That cup is red.”
How to Speak Dog
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Neither it nor his other theological versetreatises rise far above doggerel.
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The more important metrical tests include the following: the frequency of rhyme, whether in the heroic couplet or, as not uncommonly occurs in early plays, in alternates and even such elaborate arrangements as the sonnet; doggerel lines; alexandrines, or lines of twelve syllables; the presence of an extra syllable before a pause within the line; short lines, especially at the end of speeches; the substitution of other feet for the regular iambic movement of blank verse; weak and light endings; and, most valuable, the position of the pause in the line ( "end-stopped" or "run on"), and feminine endings or hypermetrical lines, such as
The Facts About Shakespeare
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And then, how Constance would have smiled over Beatrice's ideals -- her "fluffy" evenings -- in a kind of regretful, wondering way; almost as she had smiled when she first called me "Dick," in asking what had become of our staid English reserve; as she watched the noisy crowd in Fleet Street, singing its silly doggerel about England's security and England's "dibs.
The Message
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Points are awarded for each item and bonus points for any lines of doggerel quoted.
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You get daily stints on network radio if you knocked off the doggerel, which is below cute, we'd be grateful.
John Joss: Help Me Understand...
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What on earth is my mortgage company thinking of, paying someone to compose this doggerel, paying registration and copyright fees, and printing thousands of copies on glossy paper, and sending it to me?
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He can change his appearance, and the doggerel verses illustrate he has some learning.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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The caricature was accompanied by doggerel verse which used Mr Tolley's name and extolled the virtues of the chocolate.
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The doggerel of the earlier years had almost entirely disappeared, and in its place appeared the perfect concerted music of the stanzas (from the sonnet and the Spenserian downwards), the infinite variety of the decasyllable, and the exquisite lyric snatches of song in the dramatists, pamphleteers, and music-book writers.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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It was a lovely evening, we watched hundreds of masonry bees excavating the soft sandstone of a gable end, chortled at a dollop of doggerel on the subject of dog dirt and strode off down a dead-end lane.
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This poem is in the style of “Hudibras,” called doggerel rhyme, which is the stilo Berniesco of the Italians.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Even random bits of doggerel cannot escape incorporation into the design.
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For here is drivel that is profound; doggerel that is eloquent; simplemindedness that is deep.
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Points are awarded for each item and bonus points for any lines of doggerel quoted.
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A chemist, vet, optician, insurance agent and professional shutterbug, Samuel was known for his rhyming doggerel which was often published in the newspaper.
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It is only, of course, a piece of doggerel compared with the Auden poem but it does underline what poetry can do.
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Packed with dense texts combining facts about globalization and war with anagrams and doggerel, the book tours an allegorical carnival studded with nightmarish rides and sideshow freaks.
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Take the Go Compare tenor, a cheery bulbous eejit warbling doggerel set to melodies so basic that the average nursery rhyme sounds like one of Sun Ra's more outre soundscapes by comparison.
The Hard Sell: Direct Line
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Neither in his sonnets, nor in his various stanzas composed of heroics, nor in what may be called his doggerel metres -- the fatally fluent Alexandrines, fourteeners, and admixtures of both, which dominated English poetry from his time to Spenser's, and were never quite rejected during the Elizabethan period -- do we find evidence of the want of ear, or the want of command of language, which makes Wyatt's versification frequently disgusting.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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I was writing po-mo doggerel at the age of 12, in a way.
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The Mask of Anarchy) in doggerel verse-satire based on popular religious symbols.
Historical Contexts
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The characters are still frequently allegorical, but the comic or farcical element is more prevalent, the versification tends to doggerel, and they are shorter than the moralities.
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I have stupidly bragged that I could turn out some doggerel about anything; given the time.
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The first is the doggerel speech/beach rhyme - which says the poem will be foolish and has us lower our guard.
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I've gotten about halfway thru the 550-page 2nd volume of the Library Edition; I've finished, that is, all the poems he formally published & collected during his lifetime (the collection of record, which more or less signalled the close of Ruskin's already negelected poetic career, came out in 1850, when he was 31), & have just embarked on the real live "juvenilia," starting with the bits of precocious doggerel he was cranking out at 7 or so ....
GotPoetry.com News
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Stipe's lyrics typically looked like doggerel when taken out of context, awkward, over-earnest, frequently diarrheal.
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In the very curious tragi-comedy of _Cambyses_ this doggerel appears partly, but is alternated with the less lawless but scarcely more suitable "fourteener" (divided or not as usual, according to printer's exigencies) which, as was shown in the last chapter, for a time almost monopolised the attention of English poets.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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Even those who dismiss the music and its lyrics as mere jump-and-wave doggerel should note that Garlin is not merely a spectacular crowd-pleaser.
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The literal meaning of this piece of doggerel is similar to saying that someone would argue that black is white.
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The doggerel verses parodied Chaucer and the quotation `Radix malorum... "wasn't that from one of Chaucer's tales?
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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The game has been much eulogised in poetry, some of it doggerel, some of it very good.
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She wrote well and often corresponded with friends in doggerel verse.
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It seems an appropriate time (if there is one) to share this bit of doggerel from a short story by William Sanders:
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind
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Current, socially humour of doggerel, balladry , gray circulates very wide, to the society stability and social thinking produced certain effect.
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A few lines of rhyming doggerel don't count as poetry.
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Even more frustrating was the fact that all these topics were being lampooned in the rich underground repertoire of jokes, doggerel poems, and song parodies circulating among the public.
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All the performers wore cloth caps, in token of the proletarian poet whose doggerel verses about the Tay Bridge and its collapse in 1879 provided the work's text.
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Her comment upon this, in French doggerel, is illuminating.
Three Hundred Years Hence
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Most of the work was amateurish - ridiculous doggerel written by unskilled poets.
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The lyrics intermittently scan as clunkily as the predictable doggerel people send in to newspapers' obituary sections.