Hudibrastic

Hudibrastic describes verse written in the satirical, mock-heroic manner of Samuel Butler's Hudibras. It usually uses short rhyming couplets, often with deliberately awkward or surprising rhymes, to create a comic or mocking effect.

Writers use hudibrastic verse for parody, irony, and ridicule, especially when a grand style is used to deflate a foolish subject.

Example

I marched as if to save the state,
Then tripped on my own noble gait;
My helmet shone, my courage shook,
And every oath was comic look.

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