Light poetry | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 06/06/2019

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00:00:54 1 Notable poets
00:01:03 1.1 English
00:01:12 1.2 German
00:01:20 1.3 Dutch
00:01:28 2 Publications
00:02:03 3 See also



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Light poetry or light verse is poetry that attempts to be humorous.  Light poems are usually brief, can be on a frivolous or serious subject, and often feature word play including puns, adventurous rhyme, and heavy alliteration. Typically, light verse in English is formal verse, although a few free verse poets have excelled at light verse outside the formal verse tradition.
While light poetry is sometimes condemned as doggerel or thought of as poetry composed casually, humor often makes a serious point in a subtle or subversive way. Many of the most renowned "serious" poets, such as Horace, Swift, Pope, and Auden, also excelled at light verse.