doggerel

How To Use doggerel In A Sentence

• he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind
• The first is the doggerel speech/beach rhyme - which says the poem will be foolish and has us lower our guard.
• I have stupidly bragged that I could turn out some doggerel about anything; given the time.
• 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.
• The Mask of Anarchy) in doggerel verse-satire based on popular religious symbols. Historical Contexts
• I was writing po-mo doggerel at the age of 12, in a way.
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• He can change his appearance, and the doggerel verses illustrate he has some learning. A SHRINE OF MURDERS