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The rhyme is arranged in quatrains, with an ABCB rhyme scheme. The rhyme is organized by its meter, a sprung rhythm in trimeter. [13] Accentual verse (including sprung rhythm) is a common form in English folk verse, including nursery rhymes and jump-rope rhymes. The rhyme approaches taboo words, only to cut them off and modify them with an ...
As in "Miss Susie", the rhyme is organized by its meter, an accentual verse, in trimeter. [10] Accentual verse allows for set number of accents regardless of the number of syllables in the verse. It is a common form in English folk verse, especially in nursery rhymes and jump-rope rhymes.
Miss Mary Mack was a performer in Ephraim Williams’ circus in the 1880s; the song may be reference to her and the elephants in the show. [ 7 ] According to another theory, Mary Mack originally referred to the USS Merrimack , a United States warship of the mid-1800s named after the Merrimack River , that would have been black, with silvery rivets.
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"Miss Susie had a steamboat", a schoolyard rhyme "Miss Lucy had a baby", a related schoolyard rhyme; Ask Me No Questions, a novel about Bangladeshi families in the United States "Ask Me No Questions" (Frasier), an episode of the television show Frasier
These rhymes seem to have come from a variety of sources, including traditional riddles, proverbs, ballads, lines of mummers' plays, drinking songs, historical events, and, it has been suggested, ancient pagan rituals. [5] Roughly half of the current body of recognised "traditional" English rhymes were known by the mid-eighteenth century. [11]
This is a list of English-language playground songs. Playground songs are often rhymed lyrics that are sung. Most do not have clear origin, were invented by children and spread through their interactions such as on playgrounds.
This is a different song – see here “Miss Lucy Had a Baby” – and was specifically a skipping-rope rhyme (the doctor, nurse, and lady corresponding to kids jumping in and out of the ropes), and is discussed at Skipping-rope rhyme: Rhymes from the 1940s (specifically this page version).