His poems, which are often mere doggerel, were not published until after his death.
The musical forms were highly repetitive, and the lyrics were quite often doggerel without any cohesive or preconceived composition.
Some was good, some was doggerel and occasional pieces were excellent: but not all was welcome.
It typically consisted of doggerel punning rhymes, giving the names of the chief personages in the procession and alluding to their individual characteristics.
On the back of the title-page are some doggerel verses by the author.
One writer about shanties warned his readers that their lyrics, to landsmen, would probably appear as the veriest doggerel.
It was an awful piece of doggerel.
A report that has been described by an eminent economist, now on the railways board, as pure poetry—the sort of doggerel found in elementary exercise books—must of necessity be questioned.
