humorous poetry
Playful written rhymes
Humorous poetry is verse written primarily to amuse rather than to move or instruct.
It encompasses forms like limericks, parodies, and light verse, often employing wordplay, absurdity, or satirical observation.
The humor may arise from unexpected rhymes, comic timing, or deflating serious subjects.
She specializes in humorous poetry about suburban life.
Writers like Ogden Nash and Shel Silverstein are celebrated practitioners of the form.
- punWordplay using double meanings
- limerickComedic five-line poem
- rhymeMatching terminal sounds
- wordplayVerbal wit techniques
- doggerelTrivial, clumsy verse
Lewis Carroll · hyperbole · Dorothy Parker · satire · double entendre · funny bone · understatement · macaronic verse · parody · clown · W.S. Gilbert · epigram · Roald Dahl · purple cow · nonsense · comic verse · burlesque · giggle
- humor booksjoke books, one-liners, wisecracks, limericks, roast jokes
- light verselimerick, doggerel, light verse, comic verse, comic narrative
- poetrypoem, poems, verse, verses, rhyme
- wordplaypun, puns, punning, punny, punster
humorous poetryepic poetry
Extended narrative in verse
religious poetry · war poetry · protest poetry · metaphysical poetry · political verse