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macaronic verse

NOUN

nonsense verse

Synonyms

WEAK

Fescennine verse Hudibrastic verse cento macaronicism macaronics

Example Sentences

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The absurdities of the conventional pastoral did not, indeed, pass altogether unnoticed in their own day, for early in the sixteenth century Teofilo Folengo composed his Zanitonella in macaronic verse.

From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.