doggerel
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Let John Denton’s doggerel stand in for all the great jottings that didn’t make it into “Dear California.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2023
Fenn’s doggerel had seven times seven types of ambiguity, enough to keep an estimated 100,000 fortune hunters poring over it for a decade.
From Washington Post • May 21, 2021
In a letter to the West Sussex County Times, a critic resorted to doggerel to denounce Knepp’s “ragwort shame, spread like the plague, and who’s to blame?”
From The Guardian • Feb. 25, 2020
“All hail, sage lady, whom a grateful isle hath blest,” says a photographer to Elizabeth at the end of Season 1, aptly quoting the patriotic doggerel of Wordsworth’s “Ecclesiastical Sonnets.”
From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2019
The only thing that seems even a little surprising is a bit of doggerel, a love poem in Prince Dain’s hand, about a woman who remains unidentified, except by her “sunrise hair” and “starlit eyes.”
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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