noun. Crudely or irregularly fashioned verse, often of a humorous or burlesque nature.

An epithet originally given to a kind of loose, irregular measure in burlesque poetry, like that of “Hudibras,” but now more generally applied to mean verses defective alike in sense and in rhythm.

noun. Burlesque poetry, generally in irregular measure.

noun. Mean, paltry verses, defective in sense and in rhythm.

adjective. Low in style, and irregular in measure.

noun. A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry.

adjective. Of a crude or irregular construction. (Originally applied to humorous verse, but now to verse lacking artistry or meaning.)

adjective. a comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure

noun. A doggerel poem or verse.

noun. a comic verse of irregular measure

"If this is not done, as in what we call doggerel rhyme, an effect of grotesque is universally produced, to the ruin of serious poetic effect."

rhyme  verse  

Gaelic  Orphic  alliterative  amatory  artificiality  

Doric  Hudibrastic verse  amphigory  barbaric  barbarous