However, the play also appears to be a superficial work of fancy and nonsense verse, and it delighted audiences with tongue twisters and parody.
His whimsical nonsense verse celebrates words primarily for their sound, and a specific definition is not needed to appreciate his work.
Additionally, like other nonsense verse, the writing plays with and parodies a well identified genre of high seriousness.
Even though the most well-known form of literary nonsense is nonsense verse, the genre is present in many forms of literature.
He was known for his literary nonsense verse for children and his serious adult writings about social issues and human rights.
Other nonsense verse makes use of nonsense wordswords without a clear meaning or any meaning at all.
If contemporary allies understood the criticisms inherent in the play, it was also possible to see it as a burlesque with nonsense verse.
She finds the nonsense verse as puzzling as the odd land she has passed into, later revealed as a dreamscape.
