Comic poetry  

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"I'll prose it here, I'll verse it there,
And picturesque it ev'ry where"

--The Tour of Dr. Syntax: In Search of the Picturesque (1812) by William Combe and Thomas Rowlandson

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Comic verse abounded in the Victorian era. Magazines such as Punch magazine and Fun magazine teemed with humorous invention and were aimed at a well-educated readership. The most famous collection of Victorian comic verse is the Bab Ballads.

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