"Doggerel describes verse considered of little literary value. The word is derogatory, from Middle English. Doggerel might have any or all of the following failings: trite, cliche, or overly sentimental content forced or imprecise rhymes faulty metre misordering of words to force correct metre Almost by definition examples of doggerel are not preserved, since if they have any redeeming value they are not considered doggerel. One example of doggerel might be: Said the big red rooster to the little brown hen, "You haven't laid an egg Since goodness knows when." Said the little brown hen to the big red rooster, "You don't come along As often as you used to." Some poets, however, make a virtue of writing what appears to be doggerel but is actually clever and entertaining despite its apparent technical faults. Such authors include: Ogden Nash Pam Ayres The American comedian Steve Allen took a similar approach: dressed in a tuxedo, he would solemnly recite inane popular song lyrics like: Who put the bomp in the bomp-shu-bomp-shu bomp? Who put the ram in the rama-lama ding dong? as if they were soliloquies from Keats or Shakespeare. A well-traveled story has a writer (Dorothy Parker, William James, Ogden Nash or Gertrude Stein in various retellings) fall asleep, and in a dream he or she receives a profound insight, which the writer makes sure to get down on paper before falling back to sleep. Come the morning, the literary celebrity discovers that the deep thought that came in a dream was: Hogamus, higamus Men are polygamous; Higamus, hogamus Women, monogamous. (H. Allen Smith, in How To Write Without Knowing Nothing, attributes the verses to a Mrs. Amos Pinchot.) The poetry of William Topaz McGonagall is also remembered with affection by many despite its seeming technical flaws. Macaronic poetry may often be doggerel." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerel