Why comic verse as light verse? Can comic verse be heavier?

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14 Sep 2017, 9:26 am

And for today's Big Question we bring you something found upon following the path of a Google search tangent ...
"Why is comic verse seen as light verse? Can comic verse be heavier than 'serious verse'?"
A question I can not answer but am curious to see what might be said about it.

https://www.poetryarchive.org/poet-in-residence/comic-verse


hmm, comic verse, I wonder whether there is such a thing as cosmic verse?


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