One of my friends (not a poet, as such, though she can and does churn out a good poem from time to time) always refers to poems that rhyme, and are funny, as doggerel. To her they're not ''proper poetry''.
We've had countless discussions on this and I object to her reasoning. Light verse or humorous poems are not automatically doggerel, though many are, I won't deny, but so are many serious poems.
To me, doggerel means it's crap, similar to Michael's comment. Yep, if it makes you cringe, for any reason, it's most likely doggerel.
. . . Or, as I've tried to promote in the past, there is poetry - and there is poo-etry!
Jayne
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