avant light

Many of her poems were avant-garde versions of light verse.

light verse ahead

Playing to pop culture can only lead to light verse.

comic turn

After modernism, formal poetry became a special case of light verse.

light verse poet

Smitten by meter; overly fond of form.

slighter verse

Auden with his frequent lapses into vers de société.

falls off quickly from there

No middle ground: Poetry is either a quasi-religious experience or it is light verse.