"Doggrel" redirects here, for the album by Fontaines D.C., see Dogrel.
Doggerel, or doggrel, is poetry that is irregular in rhythm and in rhyme, often deliberately for burlesque or comic effect. Alternatively, it can mean verse which has a monotonous rhythm, easy rhyme, and cheap or trivial meaning.
The word is derived from the Middle Englishdogerel, probably a derivative of dog.[1] In English, it has been used as an adjective since the 14th century and a noun since at least 1630.[2]
Appearing since ancient times in the literatures of many cultures, doggerel is characteristic of nursery rhymes and children's song.[3]
Examplesedit
The Scottish poet William McGonagall (1825-1902) has become famous for his doggerel,[4] which many remember with affection despite its seeming technical flaws, as in his poem "The Tay Bridge Disaster":
Oh! Ill-fated bridge of the silv'ry Tay, I now must conclude my lay By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay, That your central girders would not have given way, At least many sensible men do say, Had they been supported on each side with buttresses, At least many sensible men confesses, For the stronger we our houses do build, The less chance we have of being killed.
Hip hop lyrics have also explored the artful possibilities of doggerel.[5]
Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas is written in this format. It irritates the Host of The Tabard so much that he interrupts him and makes him tell a different tale.
See alsoedit
Look up doggerel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
^"Doggerel". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
^"Doggerel". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
^ David, Caplan (Winter 2009), "Reduced to Rhyme: On Contemporary Doggerel", The Antioch Review, 67 (1): 164–80, An extremely minor form in contemporary poetry, doggerel abounds in hip hop. Doggerel serves it so well because prosodic satire and parody rely on an established sense of metrical and rhyming decorum, which the contemporary print-based poetry notably lacks..
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