found: Myers, J. Dictionary of poetic terms, c2003(Skeltonic verse (also called "tumbling verse," "skeltonics," and "skeltoniads"): satiric, roughly hewn verse of revolt written by John Skelton (1460-1529) and consisting of short, irregularly lined and rhymed verses. The form, aimed at the formalists, politicians, and clergymen of his period, resembles doggerel in effect and intention.)
found: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics, c2012(Skeltonic. A kind of poem named after its originator, the Eng. poet laureate John Skelton (ca. 1460-1529). Skeltonic poems are distinguished by short lines and long stretches of monorhyme, called leashes. End rhymes are not crossed. Lines have between two and five stresses, although three-stress lines occur most frequently. Alliteration abounds; rhyme, rather than meaning seems to drive the poems forward.)
found: Cuddon, J.A. A dictionary of literary terms and literary theory, 1998(Skeltonics. Or Skeltonic verse (also known as 'tumbling verse', named after John Skelton (1460?-1529), a poet of the Tudor period. It is a headlong, kettle-drum, tumultuous verse related to doggerel whose chief stylistic features are short lines, multiple rhyme, alliteration and parallelism. Pejoratively called 'rude rayling', Skeltonics have become admired and respectable.)
