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Limerick vs Doggerel - What's the difference?

limerick | doggerel |

As a proper noun limerick

is a county in the republic of ireland.

As an adjective doggerel is

(poetry) of a crude or irregular construction (originally applied to humorous verse, but now to verse lacking artistry or meaning).

As a noun doggerel is

a doggerel poem or verse.

limerick

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba , and typically has a 9-9-6-6-9 cadence.

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    doggerel

    English

    (wikipedia doggerel)

    Alternative forms

    * doggrel

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (poetry) Of a crude or irregular construction. (Originally applied to humorous verse, but now to verse lacking artistry or meaning.)
  • * 1678 , , "Prologue to Limberham," lines 1-4,
    • True wit has seen its best days long ago;
    It ne'er look'd up, since we were dipp'd in show:
    When sense in doggerel rhymes and clouds was lost,
    And dulness flourish'd at the actors' cost.
  • (poetry) a comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A doggerel poem or verse.
  • * 1895 , ,The Red Badge of Courage , ch. 8,
    • As he marched he sang a bit of doggerel in a high and quavering voice:
  • *:: "Sing a song 'a vic'try,
  • *:: A pocketful 'a bullets,
  • *:: Five an' twenty dead men
  • *:: Baked in a—pie."

    • References

    * * * * * " doggerel" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)