Nonsense verse

The term nonsense poetry is the sum authorized or orally transmitted poetic literature with no other discernible sense than the game, the fine and coarse joke or nonsense ( compare also: comic poetry, nonsense poems).

The concrete poetry or visual poetry might not belong here, as is the sense of concrete poetry, inter alia, to represent themselves. The differences in the "concrete poet " but are so large that this in turn does not apply to all. Ernst Jandl's texts, which should be occasionally misunderstood, often have a tangible sense, even politically oriented or anti-military.

Nonsense poetry has in the child's rhyme world their origin, often found in puns an expression and is also in the upper seal for flower such as in the drama of romance.

Nonsense, joke and jest seal was printed in the Flying Scroll of the 19th century large spread.

Among the varieties of nonsense poetry to count:

  • ABeCeDarius
  • Rhymes
  • Boniface Kiesewetter
  • Clerihew
  • Dark it was, the moon shone bright
  • Fatrasie
  • Folded Horn verses
  • Liver rhymes
  • Limericks
  • Nüngverdrizler
  • Moritaten
  • Palindrome
  • Parodies
  • Spoonerisms
  • Dullness verses
  • Tongue-twister

Authors

In the creation of nonsense poetry following authors stand out:

Limerick (poetry)
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