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Hudibrastic
Hudibrastic Hu`di*bras"tic, a. Similar to, or in the style of, the poem ``Hudibras,' by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse. --Macaulay.

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- Hudibrastic is a type of English verse named for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, published in parts from 1663 to 1678. For the poem, Butler invented a mock-heroic...
- (1731–32). For more about the development and use of Hudibrastic verse after Butler, see Hudibrastic. Hargreaves, A. S. (2009). "Hudibras". ISBN 978-0-19-956763-8...
- 602–661 Edward C. Appel, "Burlesque drama as a rhetorical genre: The hudibrastic ridicule of William F. Buckley Jr.", Western Journal of Communication...
- gave rise to a particular verse form, commonly called the "Hudibrastic". The Hudibrastic is poetry in closed rhyming couplets in iambic tetrameter, where...
- The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror was a British fortnightly magazine of humorous and satirical prints, first issued in 1806 by London publisher...
- blind boy, once, has cleft the mark. — The Moral (translated—origin?—in Hudibrastic) Kavka, G. S. (1983). "When two 'wrongs' Make a right: an essay on business...
- suffix -ing can make it readily available[clarification needed]. The Hudibrastic relies upon feminine rhyme for its comedy, and limericks will often employ...
- known as Hudibrastic verse. It was a formal parody of heroic verse, and it was primarily used for satire. Jonathan Swift would use the Hudibrastic form almost...
- (The) Life & Notable Adventures of Don Quixote merrily translated into Hudibrastic Verse Charles Jervas (1742) Tobias Smollett (1755) (revision of Charles...
- textiles wallpaper and other merchandise. The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror, an influential English comic series published in London between...