How To Use Nonsense verse In A Sentence
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As a boy of 11, I loved the nonsense verse of Façade, which I used to read whilst listening to Peggy Ashcroft and Paul Scofield's recorded version.
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Every language had its stock of lullabies, nursery rhymes, nonsense verses, fairytales and simple stories.
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Her stories, told in nonsense verse, are fast-paced with a rhythm that carries through its pages.
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It's a nonsense verse used by everyone from boy scouts to football hooligans.
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It is more difficult to believe that two irreverent jokers who set out to write nonsense verses could have been inspired by the gods without knowing it.
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It is a literary fable, populated with characters who are half escapees from Edward Lear's nonsense verse and half punks, well-crafted and certainly good for anyone wanting an unputdownable read where you might also learn something new.
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There were innumerable short parodies of Shakespeare's work, and Carroll's nonsense verse is often parodic.
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As a great practitioner of nonsense verse, Edward Lear initiated the creation of nonsense in bulk. Many of his aesthetic devices were later widely borrowed.
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Successful nonsense verse must respect the structure and syntax of a language.
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Every language had its stock of lullabies, nursery rhymes, nonsense verses, fairytales and simple stories of light and delight.
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Lewis Carroll used the term portmanteau to describe a neologism with “two meanings packed up into one word”; his nonsense verse Jabberwocky (pictured) is full of them.
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It's a nonsense verse used by everyone from boy scouts to football hooligans, including, presumably the Swansea massive.
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Her stories, told in nonsense verse, are fast-paced with a rhythm that carries through its pages.
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With nonsense verse, he demonstrated his unique world view, recorded the social situation of his time and displayed his objection to the Victorian seriousness and portentousness.
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During these years he wrote his greatest nonsense verse.
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It is not addressed to anyone, is not in the Knave's handwriting, and is actually a set of nonsense verses.