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Sticks and Stones" is an English-language children's rhyme. The rhyme is used as a defense against name-calling and verbal bullying, intended to increase resiliency, avoid physical retaliation, and/or to remain calm and indifferent. The full rhyme is usually a variant of:
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Perfect rhyme (also called full rhyme, exact rhyme, [1] or true rhyme) is a form of rhyme between two words or phrases, satisfying the following conditions: [2] [3] The stressed vowel sound in both words must be identical, as well as any subsequent sounds. For example, the words "kit" and "bit" form a perfect rhyme. [4] [5]
Anthony Horowitz used the rhyme as the organising scheme for the story-within-a-story in his 2016 novel Magpie Murders and in the subsequent television adaptation of the same name. [17] The nursery rhyme's name was used for a book written by Mary Downing Hahn, One for Sorrow: A Ghost Story. The book additionally contains references to the ...
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Hymns (and national anthems) are full of bad rhymes that can't ever have had the same pronunciation; Hark the Herald Angels Sing (1739) hopes to get away with "come" and "womb", while God Save the Queen (1745 or previous) tries to rhyme "cause" and "voice". A more recent example is God Defend New Zealand (1877) which rhymes "star", "war" and ...
GYAT (which rhymes with “squat” or “bought,” or “Fiat” depending on your pronunciation of the “g”), can be an acronym for “Girl Your A** Thicc” or an abbreviation for ...
The Bab Ballads is a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911), illustrated with his own comic drawings. The poems take their name from Gilbert’s childhood nickname.