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In fact, they are English-language nursery rhymes written homophonically as a nonsensical French text (with pseudo-scholarly explanatory footnotes); that is, as an English-to-French homophonic translation. [1] The result is not merely the English nursery rhyme but that nursery rhyme as it would sound if spoken in English by someone with a ...
[1] A Book of Ryhmes (the word rhymes is misspelt) [2] is one of six miniature books written by the teenage Brontë, forming part of her juvenilia. [1] [3] Dated 17 December 1829, [4] it measures only 3.8 in × 2.5 in (9.7 cm × 6.4 cm). [1] The book sold for $520 in an auction at Walpole Galleries in New York City in 1916 (equivalent to ...
The number of different possible rhyme schemes for an n-line poem is given by the Bell numbers, [16] which for n = 1, 2, 3, ... are 1, 2, 5, 15, 52, 203, 877, 4140, 21147, 115975, .. (sequence A000110 in the OEIS). Examples: We find one rhyme scheme for a one-line poem (A), two different rhyme schemes for a two-line poem (AA, AB), and five for ...
"Arthur o' Bower" is a short British nursery rhyme or rhymed riddle originally published in 1805 but known, on the evidence of a letter by William Wordsworth, to have been current in the late 18th century in Cumberland.
Geoffrey Chaucer only wrote one poem in tail rhyme, the tale of Sir Thopas in the Canterbury Tales. This is the first tale told by Chaucer's fictionalised version of himself within the frame narrative of the Tales, and it is received poorly by the other pilgrims. Due to its content, its tail rhyme form, and the negative reaction of the ...
A Balliol rhyme is a doggerel verse form with a distinctive metre.It is a quatrain, having two rhyming couplets (rhyme scheme AABB), each line having four beats. They are written in the voice of the named subject and elaborate on that person's character, exploits or predilections.
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (born James Orchard Halliwell; 21 June 1820 – 3 January 1889) was an English writer, Shakespearean scholar, antiquarian, and a collector of English nursery rhymes and fairy tales. [1]
The "tinker, tailor" rhyme is one part of a longer counting or divination game, played by young girls to foretell their futures, similar thematically to MASH. It runs as follows: When shall I marry? This year, next year, sometime, never. What will my husband be? (or what I be?) Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich-man, poor-man, beggar-man, thief.