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  2. Literary nonsense - Wikipedia

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    Literary nonsense, as recognized since the nineteenth century, comes from a combination of two broad artistic sources. The first and older source is the oral folk tradition, including games, songs, dramas, and rhymes, such as the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle". [3]

  3. Nonsense verse - Wikipedia

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    Other nonsense verse makes use of nonsense words—words without a clear meaning or any meaning at all. Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear both made good use of this type of nonsense in some of their verse. These poems are well formed in terms of grammar and syntax, and each nonsense word is of a clear part of speech.

  4. Nonsense - Wikipedia

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    Jabberwocky, a poem (of nonsense verse) found in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll (1871), is a nonsense poem written in the English language. The word jabberwocky is also occasionally used as a synonym of nonsense. [2] A Book of Nonsense (c. 1875 James Miller edition) by Edward Lear

  5. How to Write a Real Love Poem (Without Clichés or Bad ... - AOL

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    The most powerful love poems, I think, address the fact that we are here now and one day won’t be. Keats’s “Ode on Melancholy” is an exquisite example. Keats knew immense suffering in his ...

  6. Double dactyl - Wikipedia

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    Further, the first line of the first stanza is repetitive nonsense, and the second line of the first stanza is the subject of the poem, which in the purest instances of the form is a double-dactylic proper noun. (Hecht and other poets sometimes bent or ignored this rule, as in the Robison poem below.)

  7. Category:Nonsense poetry - Wikipedia

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  8. Jabberwocky - Wikipedia

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    The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel, 1871 "Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". It was included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).

  9. Purple Cow - Wikipedia

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    The poem was first published in the first issue of Burgess's magazine The Lark in May 1895 and became his most widely known work. [2] It originally had the longer title "The Purple Cow's projected feast/Reflections on a Mythic Beast/Who's Quite Remarkable, at Least". [ 3 ]