Word: doggerel
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...star-spangled banner . . . long may it wave," or "My Country 'Tis of Thee" or "The Red, White and Blue ?" They were not. They accompanied the waving of the Stars and Stripes with singing in chorus "The Sidewalks of New York." It can hardly be conceded that such doggerel is a national patriotic air, yet these children are indirectly being taught to so consider it. In years to come their influence will be felt in all quarters of the country whence they migrate. . . . JAMES W. PIERCE...
...eradicate kissing as a means of salutation between our males, who have displayed notable unprogressiveness in this respect." At the village of Pnieva one nicknamed "Pump" on account of his fondness for kissing persons of both sexes created a mild sensation by defying the new feminist organization "with a doggerel song," the accompaniment for which was furnished by one Gurok, village harmonica player...
...took extraordinary delight in the amount of poetry he could prepare for a single morning's edition of the newspaper, and often he published doggerel that was very far from being musical, or was ludicrous alliterative nonsense like this...
There is little actual record of the first evening's performance except that which has been left by the secretary of the club in an astonishing doggerel. He writes that "A fragile boy as thickhipped Distaffina sung and skipped" and chronicled the actions of the other members of the cast in a similar manager. He spends more time, however, in a description of one of the club's annual celebrations and ends his poem as follows...
There is a parody, for instance by Charles Dickens who is usually connected with the high romanticism of David Copperfield of the serious vein of The Tale of Two Cities. He has taken the lines of Gray's immortal elegy and transformed them in very mediocre doggerel, into the tale of a eat and dog. Here, for example are the opening lines of his version of the church yard verses...