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It was sometimes amusing or even witty doggerel, but doggerel, and everyone knew about his voice.
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.
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.
She wrote well and often corresponded with friends in doggerel verse.
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.
His education at Gonzaga ranged from the classics to Irish doggerel and limericks, which he could quote appropriately with astonishing effect.
Their cries and shouting broke their doggerel rhythm into a chaos of shouts in which the words Truth and Rupert were most prominent.
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.
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.
I always made sure that it was filled with the finest comic doggerel, epigrams, and songs of a light-hearted nature.
The first is the doggerel speech/beach rhyme - which says the poem will be foolish and has us lower our guard.
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.
Before Ali left, he'd hugged and kissed them all and made up an original piece of doggerel for each.
A popular bit of doggerel underlined their usual futility in this fashion: ‘Washington, first in war, first in peace, last in the American League.’
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.
Afterwards, he sits on the city hall steps reciting doggerel verses on the vagaries of the day's decisions.
To keep in memory the order and fate of these women, someone devised a bit of doggerel: Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.
Even random bits of doggerel cannot escape incorporation into the design.
A chemist, vet, optician, insurance agent and professional shutterbug, Samuel was known for his rhyming doggerel which was often published in the newspaper.
The literal meaning of this piece of doggerel is similar to saying that someone would argue that black is white.