| I always made sure that it was filled with the finest comic doggerel, epigrams, and songs of a light-hearted nature. |
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| This is the type of truly bad language-mangling doggerel written by old ladies that appears on the letters pages of local newspapers. |
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| It is only, of course, a piece of doggerel compared with the Auden poem but it does underline what poetry can do. |
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| Stipe's lyrics typically looked like doggerel when taken out of context, awkward, over-earnest, frequently diarrheal. |
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| The game has been much eulogised in poetry, some of it doggerel, some of it very good. |
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| It was sometimes amusing or even witty doggerel, but doggerel, and everyone knew about his voice. |
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| Their cries and shouting broke their doggerel rhythm into a chaos of shouts in which the words Truth and Rupert were most prominent. |
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| The caricature was accompanied by doggerel verse which used Mr. Tolley's name and extolled the virtues of the chocolate. |
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| When not reciting my doggerel, I was in the pit, making sound effects with kazoos and Swanee whistles, clappers, and zingers and such like. |
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| The literal meaning of this piece of doggerel is similar to saying that someone would argue that black is white. |
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| Afterwards, he sits on the city hall steps reciting doggerel verses on the vagaries of the day's decisions. |
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| Before Ali left, he'd hugged and kissed them all and made up an original piece of doggerel for each. |
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| The lyrics intermittently scan as clunkily as the predictable doggerel people send in to newspapers' obituary sections. |
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| His education at Gonzaga ranged from the classics to Irish doggerel and limericks, which he could quote appropriately with astonishing effect. |
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| As it is, the prose passages are prosaic and the rap doggerel is merely tedious. |
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| Even those who dismiss the music and its lyrics as mere jump-and-wave doggerel should note that Garlin is not merely a spectacular crowd-pleaser. |
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| The album's lyrics are not even good enough to be complimented as doggerel, more Neil Lennon than John Lennon. |
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| Other entertaining bits of contemporary doggerel do feature, but Morris isn't here for close reading. |
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| Here you will have fun playing crambo, ziggy piggy, and doggerel. |
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| 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. |
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| A chemist, vet, optician, insurance agent and professional shutterbug, Samuel was known for his rhyming doggerel which was often published in the newspaper. |
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| Even random bits of doggerel cannot escape incorporation into the design. |
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| The Epilogue to The Tempest has been derided as doggerel, literally interpreted as Shakespeare's farewell to the stage, and supposed to be an interpolation by another hand. |
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| For Mayor Rahm Emanuel And Judge Gonzalo Curiel, May this unskillful doggerel Renew for them the annual Season's felicitations! |
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| The doggerel itself was silly, but the earned intimacy of the group felt startlingly sincere. |
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| Who is being parodied in the following snippets of noble doggerel? Had I but Strength enough and time Thy boldness Lady were no crime. |
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| 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. |
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| It is just an unmetrical doggerel written in an incorrect language. |
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| She wrote well and often corresponded with friends in doggerel verse. |
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| If the intention was to produce poetry in the Dorset dialect, the result so far is doggerel in theatrical Mummerset. |
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| Ogden Nash made a virtue of writing what appears to be doggerel but is actually clever and entertaining despite its apparent technical faults. |
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| Their mischievous appearance belies their status as one of Britain's top predators. Seamus Heaney, Mary O'Malley and Ted Hughes have all devoted elegant doggerel to these creatures. |
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| Their pastimes included gambling, drinking, playing the guitar, and singing doggerel verses about their prowess in hunting, fighting, and lovemaking. |
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| The asylum inmate muttered some doggerel about chains and pains to himself, over and over. |
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| The musical forms were highly repetitive, and the lyrics were quite often doggerel without any cohesive or preconceived composition. |
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| Hip hop lyrics have also explored the artful possibilities of doggerel. |
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| It began with doggerel, spoken stiltedly by the quartet of presenters, who mocked what they had said but then continued to speak stiltedly throughout. |
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| That leisured past... is insistently evoked in Mr. Kiely's new collection. A compendium of folk memory, it features great bursts of balladry and doggerel. |
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| It is a dispute among the critics, whether burlesque poetry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras. |
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