Nursery rhymes and nonsense verse also are frequent subjects of traditional songs.

" Jabberwocky " is a nonsense verse poem written by Lewis Carroll in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, a sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

She finds the nonsense verse as puzzling as the odd land she has walked into, later revealed as a dreamscape.

He reviewed the collection of poems for the 2 June 1816 Examiner, and, in his analysis, he attacked the fragmentary nature of the work and argued, " The fault of Mr Coleridge is, that he comes to no conclusion ... from an excess of capacity, he does little or nothing " and that the poem revealed that " Mr Coleridge can write better nonsense verse than any man in English.

Peake also wrote poetry and literary nonsense in verse form, short stories for adults and children ( Letters from a Lost Uncle ), stage and radio plays, and Mr Pye, a relatively tightly-structured novel in which God implicitly mocks the evangelical pretensions and cosy world-view of the eponymous hero.

Milligan also wrote verse, considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense.

Limericks are probably the best known form of nonsense verse, although they tend nowadays to be used for bawdy or straightforwardly humorous, rather than nonsensical, effect.

Among writers in English noted for nonsense verse are Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Ogden Nash, Mervyn Peake, Colin West, Roald Dahl, Dr. Seuss and Spike Milligan.

In some cases, the humor of nonsense verse is based on the incompatibility of phrases which make grammatical sense but semantic nonsense at least in certain interpretations, as in the traditional:

Other nonsense verse makes use of nonsense words — words without a clear meaning or any meaning at all.

Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear both made good use of this type of nonsense in some of their verse.

The first verse of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky illustrates this nonsense technique, despite Humpty Dumpty's later explanation of some of the unclear words within it:

Other nonsense verse uses muddled or ambiguous grammar as well as invented words, as in John Lennon's " The Faulty Bagnose ":

However not all nonsense verse relies on word play.

However, the significance of the color of their heads and hands is not apparent and the verse appears to be nonsense.

More contemporary examples of nonsense verse are Vogon poetry, found in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or the 1972 song ' Prisencolinensinainciusol ' by Italian multi-talent Adriano Celentano.

There is a long tradition of nonsense verse in English.

When he learned that a teacher at his old primary school was having his students analyse Beatles ' lyrics, he added a verse of nonsense words.

However, the anapaest's most common role in English verse is as a comic metre, the foot of the limerick, of Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark, Edward Lear's nonsense poems, T. S. Eliot's Book of Practical Cats, a number of Dr. Seuss stories, and innumerable other examples.

The album features Kelly singing his own comic lyrics and nonsense verse to melodies written mostly by Norman Monath.

The main example used in the story is a short piece composed by Jeltz, which roughly emulates nonsense verse in style ( example below ).

One of the most popular was the writer of nonsense verse, Richard Scrafton Sharpe ( d. 1852 ), whose Old Friends in a New Dress: familiar fables in verse first appeared in 1807 and went through five steadily augmented editions until 1837.

Writing decades after Cantor's death, Wittgenstein lamented that mathematics is " ridden through and through with the pernicious idioms of set theory ," which he dismissed as " utter nonsense " that is " laughable " and " wrong ".

; Amber mutations: were the first set of nonsense mutations to be discovered, isolated by graduate student Harris Bernstein in experiments designed to resolve a debate between Richard Epstein and Charles Steinberg.

This diagram shows the Syntax ( logic ) | syntactic entities which may be constructed from formal language s. The symbol ( formal ) | symbols and string ( computer science ) | strings of symbols may be broadly divided into nonsense and well-formed formula s. A formal language can be thought of as identical to the set of its well-formed formulas.

Whereas scat singing uses improvised nonsense syllables, such as " bap ba dee dot bwee dee " in solos, vocalese uses lyrics, either improvised or written and set to pre-existing instrumental solos, sometimes in the form of a tribute to the original instrumentalist.

The subjects ’ attention was set on the syllables that they did not even remember the colors of the nonsense syllables.

This diagram shows the syntactic entities which may be constructed from formal language s. The symbol ( formal ) | symbols and string ( computer science ) | strings of symbols may be broadly divided into nonsense and well-formed formula s. A formal language is identical to the set of its well-formed formulas.

" The medical nonsense that " coreopsis has set in " uses the name of a flower which sounds just like a horrible medical condition.

While the latter plot is a fairy tale with many nonsense elements and poems, similar to Carroll's Alice books, the story set in Victorian Britain is a social novel, with its characters discussing various concepts and aspects of religion, society, philosophy and morality.

Morrison fulfilled a clause that bound him to submit thirty-six original songs within a year to Web IV Music, Berns ' music publishing company, by recording thirty-one songs in one session ; however, Ilene Berns thought the songs " nonsense music ... about ringworms " and didn't use them.

As a musical genre, Doo-wop is a type of vocal group harmony with the musical qualities of many vocal parts, nonsense syllables, a simple beat, little or no instrumentation, and simple music and lyrics.

King probably coined the word jùjú — a style of music he helped to create — in reference to the sound of a Brazilian tambourine ; alternatively, the term may have developed as an expression of disdain by the colonial leaders ( any native tradition was apt to be dismissed as ' mere joujou, French for " nonsense ").

# A popular nonsense tune of that era, " The Hut-Sut Song " by Horace HeidtWords and music by Leo V. Killion, Ted McMichael and Jack Owens, sung by Horton and his son, with the words made even more nonsensical and " and so on so on so forth " replacing some of them.

Jacob Adler wrote of it that " this thin idea had been dressed out with so much stolen music that it was shameful to hear ", but Lulla Rosenfeld, writing from a distance of over a century, argues that its combination of a " serious theme with an amusing nonsense plot " was emblematic of early Yiddish theater.

The first sheet music edition of " Old Dan Tucker ", published in 1843, is a song of boasts and nonsense in the vein of previous minstrel hits such as " Jump Jim Crow " and " Gumbo Chaff ".

In The Great Tom Collins hoax of 1874, as it became known, the speaker would encourage the listener to act foolishly by reacting to patent nonsense that the hoaxer deliberately presents as reality.

During the last two seasons, he became more absent-minded, tending to frustrate both DM and Penfold with his tendency to ramble nonsense.

Their radical leftist stance became increasingly drenched in cynicism, which slowly threatened to overtake their message – the results of this evolution are evidenced in the nonsense song " Lillian " and other non-sequitur pieces from this time.

Gundry feels that the idea of foolish salt is such " utter nonsense " that no translator would ever make such a mistake, he feels it is more likely that the Semitic expression had been assimilated into Greek and that became foolish was an expression for losing savour.

On one occasion, Dixon changed the syllables he was singing to include Earl's name, and the chant gradually became the nonsense words " Du .. du .. du .. Duke of Earl ".

He became known as the " god of comedy " for directing over 200 films, many of which were nonsense comedies featuring famous clowns such as Ken ' ichi Enomoto, Roppa Furukawa, and Junzaburō Ban.