Nonsense verse
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Name (Hebrew)
שירי אי-גיון
Name (Latin)
Nonsense verse
Other forms of name
Amphigories
Nonsense poetry
Nonsense rhymes
שירי איגיון
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Q1494806
Library of congress:
gf2014026455
Sources of Information
- Myers, J. Dictionary of poetic terms, c2003(nonsense verse: a form of light verse that is used to amuse or instruct through the creation of a highly rhythmic, melopoetic, and onomatopoetic verse in which sense is subordinated to sound)
- The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics, c2012(Nonsense Verse; the versified instance of nonsense lit., a category of writing that transforms into virtues the vices associated with the pejorative term nonsense: silliness, incomprehensibility, childishness, pointlessness, and triviality, among others; critics have disagreed over whether nonsense is a genre, or something more nebulous; critics treat the works of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll as the foremost exemplars of the category in Eng.; critics draw a sharp distinction between nonsense and mere gibberish; no just light but willfully unserious: its very point often seems to be pointlessness)
- Cuddon, J. A dictionary of literary terms and literary theory, 5th ed., via Wiley online, Aug. 26, 2014(amphigory: amphigory (Gk 'circle on both sides') The term has come to mean a kind of burlesque or parody (qq.v.), especially a kind of nonsense verse (q.v.) which appears to be going to make sense but does not. A well-known example is Swinburne's Nephelidia.)
- Merriam-Webster online, Aug. 26, 2014(amphigory: plural amphigories; a nonsense verse or composition; a rigmarole with apparent meaning which proves to be meaningless)
- Nonsenselit WWW site, April 13, 2015:("The Edward Lear homepage"; nonsense rhymes)
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Wikipedia description:
Nonsense verse is a form of nonsense literature usually employing strong prosodic elements like rhythm and rhyme. It is often whimsical and humorous in tone and employs some of the techniques of nonsense literature. Limericks are probably the best known form of nonsense verse, although they tend nowadays to be used for straightforward humour, rather than having a nonsensical effect. Among writers in English noted for nonsense verse are Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Mervyn Peake, Edward Gorey, Colin West, Dr. Seuss, and Spike Milligan. The Martian Poets and Ivor Cutler are considered by some to be in the nonsense tradition.
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