Sentence examples for doggerel verse from inspiring English sources
It is written in excruciating doggerel verse, with appallingly irritating rhymes and shapeless rhythms.
He wrote doggerel verse and bawdy limericks, and composed religious music.
"Why thus do they rush, man?" ran a doggerel verse of the time, "Tis Romeo, played by Miss Cushman".
The groups staged "paper wars" -- attacking each other with doggerel verse -- built their own libraries and critiqued members' letters and essays.
Bad but popular poetry appeared in the Bay Psalm Book of 1640 and in Michael Wigglesworth's summary in doggerel verse of Calvinistic belief, The Day of Doom (1662).
Terrible doggerel verse from Robert Lowell; sentimental nonsense from Arthur Schlesinger; a preposterous exercise in pre- Hitler Diary" absurdity from a Hugh Trevor-Ropre- Hitlerntly convinceDiaryt the murder wabsurditypiracy.
Still — his doggerel verses are not literature.
Their pastimes included gambling, drinking, playing the guitar, and singing doggerel verses about their prowess in hunting, fighting, and lovemaking.
In the last decade, Reggie published an autobiography and a book of doggerel verses, and he gave studiously courteous jail-house interviews in which he pleaded for his release and claimed to be a born-again Christian.
David Arthur Bachrach, as Austen's father, has a fine time with a bit of doggerel called "Verses to Rhyme With 'Rose,'" and the whole troupe gets involved in a daffy (at least for 1803) skit titled "The History of England".
The real "trick," however, was that Columbus, his mind by then addled by drinking from lead-lined goblets, forced the slaves to listen to his "light humorous verse" (mainly nonsensical doggerel that detailed Columbus's fictional, and grotesque, sexual conquests).
