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The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...
Illustration of "Hey Diddle Diddle", a well-known nursery rhyme. A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and other European countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early 19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes. [1]
Four children reading Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Children's poetry is poetry written for, appropriate for, or enjoyed by children.. Children's poetry is one of the oldest art forms, rooted in early oral tradition, folk poetry, and nursery rhymes.
In practice none of these categories is entirely discrete, since, for example, children often reuse and adapt nursery rhymes, and many songs now considered as traditional were deliberately written by adults for commercial ends. The Opies further divided nursery rhymes into a number of groups, including [3] Amusements (including action songs)
There are multiple examples of nursery rhymes that contain a first line—with six beats, followed by three lines containing four beats each. Some Chinese nursery rhymes have up to six four-beat lines. [18] Another convention that seems to be fairly universal in children's nursery rhymes is the pattern of rests before or after the lines.
A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other. An example of the ABAB rhyming scheme, from "To Anthea, who may Command him Anything", by Robert Herrick:
Rhymed prose is a literary form and literary genre, written in unmetrical rhymes. This form has been known in many different cultures. This form has been known in many different cultures. In some cases the rhymed prose is a distinctive, well-defined style of writing.
scan of Tommy Thumb's pretty song book. Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book is the oldest extant anthology of English nursery rhymes, published in London in 1744.It contains the oldest printed texts of many well-known and popular rhymes, as well as several that eventually dropped out of the canon of rhymes for children.