Light verse and verse for the young, including nonsense verse, the nursery rhyme, children poetry, light poetry and the Little Willie rhymes. A form belongs here when its cited article describes it as humorous, whimsical or written for children. It excludes political, religious and experimental poetry. The group sits within the Lyric and Short Poetic Forms subcategory of the genre roster and gathers the genres of this kind that the atlas already records, so that a reader can browse related genres together and compare how each one is defined.
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Doggerel (Wikipedia)
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poetry that is irregular in rhythm and in rhyme, often deliberately for burlesque or comic effect
Wikipedia: Nonsense verse
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Nonsense verse is a form of nonsense literature usually employing strong prosodic elements like rhythm and rhyme.
Wikipedia: Nursery rhyme
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A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and other European countries, but usage of the term dates only from c. 1800.
Wikipedia: Children's poetry
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Children's poetry is poetry written for, appropriate for, or enjoyed by children.
Wikipedia: Light poetry
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Light poetry or light verse is poetry that attempts to be humorous.
Little Willie rhymes (Wikipedia)
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Little Willie rhymes are light verses including an indifferent or cheerfully inappropriate response to a gruesome act of violence in a quatrain form attributed to Harry Graham (1874-1936).
Literary Nonsense (Wikipedia)
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Its humor is derived from its nonsensical nature, rather than wit or the "joke" of a punch line.
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