- so called from Samuel Butler's Hudibras
- mock-heroic satirical poem in octosyllabic couplets
E.g.
He was in Logick a great Critick,
Profoundly skill'd in Analytick.
He could distinguish, and divide
A Hair 'twixt South and South-West side:
On either which he would dispute,
Confute, change hands, and still confute...
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