|
|
Definition of Doggerel verse
1. Noun. A comic verse of irregular measure. "He had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doggerel Verse
Literary usage of Doggerel verse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jubilee History of Thorold, Township and Town, from the Time of the Red Man by John Henry Thompson, Thompson, John H. (Thorold, Ont.), Pub (1898)
"doggerel verse. Attack upon the Lancers at St. Johns. Act of Union. Township
statistics for 1849. Thorold men in Jhe Dominion and Provincial Parliaments. ..."
2. Sketches of the History of the Town of Camden, Maine: Including Incidental by John Lymburner Locke (1859)
"... the Wolves—Miller and the destitute Family—doggerel verse—Name of Indian
Island—Origin of the name of Goose Biver— First White Children born in Camden. ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"Its wonderful skill of doggerel verse and acrobatic rhyme, the inexhaustible
abundance of its fantastic imagery, its learning, its fancy, its pictorial ..."
4. A History of the American Nation by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin (1919)
"The cheap, doggerel verse and the campaign songs meant nothing in themselves;
... One of the pieces of doggerel verse used in the campaign was only too ..."
Other Resources:
