Is this word limited to this definition or are we free to use it in a more expanded connotation of any nonsense:
late 14c. (adj.); 1630s (n.), "Any rhyming verse in which the meter is forced into metronomic regularity by the stressing of normally unstressed syllables and in which rhyme is forced or banal"
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Re: doggerel
That seems more technical as if it were an established form of verse like a sonnet. I think of doggeral as informal verse, perhaps dreamed up and tossed off quickly. Perhaps with the light feeling or Robert Service's poems, but not nearly as carefully crafted.
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