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"Ring a Ring o' Roses", also known as "Ring a Ring o' Rosie" or (in the United States) "Ring Around the Rosie", is a nursery rhyme, folk song, and playground game. Descriptions first appeared in the mid-19th century, though it is reported to date from decades earlier. Similar rhymes are known across Europe, with varying lyrics.
Ring-a-Ring o' Roses 'Ring Around the Rosie' United Kingdom 1881 [85] Origin unknown, there is no evidence linking it to the Great Plague or earlier outbreaks of bubonic plague in England. Roses Are Red: Great Britain 1784 [86] A rhyme similar to the modern standard version can be found in Gammer Gurton's Garland. Row, Row, Row Your Boat ...
"A rose is a rose is a rose" and its variants have been contrasted with Shakespeare's "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." [3]The sentence was heavily promoted by Stein's life partner Alice B. Toklas; for example, she sold plates with the sentence going all the way around.
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Sonnet 54 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet contains three quatrains followed by a final rhyming couplet.This poem follows the rhyme scheme of the English sonnet, abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of metre in which each line has five feet, and each foot has two syllables that are accented weak/strong.
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The rhyme was first collected in Britain in the late 1940s. [2] Since teddy bears did not come into vogue until the twentieth century it is likely to be fairly recent in its current form, but Iona and Peter Opie suggest that it is probably a version of an older rhyme, "Round about there": [2]