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Nonsense Verse

Belloc is most famous for his 'Cautionary Verse'.These are comic poems about what happens to naughty children.
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One of the most popular English comic poets. He wrote comic verse for children (including The Owl and the Pussy Cat) and limericks or 'nonsense' -poems:
There was an Old Man with a beard
There was a Young Lady whose chin
There was an Old Man with a nose