On Nursery Rhymes (examples)  This Old Man

 Tales of Mother Goose by Charles Perrault

Rhythm (節奏,韻律) the pattern of *https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mother-
stressed and unstressed syllables in goose (Mother goose)
language.
 Good sources of nursery rhymes:
 Nursery rhymes tend to have
very predictable rhythms. For Wee Sing and Play series
example, "Mary had a little lamb", *http://weesing.com/Books-Music/Wee-Sing-
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star" Childrens-Songs-and-Fingerplays (We Sing and
 When reading poetry to children, we Fingerplays)
need to be aware of the rhythm Example: This Old Man (no. 18)
pattern(s) a poem contains so that we
can gain good effect from our *http://weesing.com/Books-Music/Wee-Sing-and-
reading. Play (We Sing and Play)
Example: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (no. 55)
Rhyme (押韻) the repetition of similar
sounds in the two or more words.  Alliteration (頭韻)
2. Ring-a-round the rosie,
 End rhyme A pocket full of posies,
1. One, two, Ashes! Ashes!
Buckle my shoe; We all fall down.
Three, four,
Shut the door; 3. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
Five, six, peppers.
Pick up sticks; A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper
Seven, eight, picked.
Lay them straight; If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
Nine, ten, peppers,
A big, fat hen. How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper
Eleven, twelve, pick?
Dig and delve,
Thirteen, fourteen,  Assonance (類音,類韻)
Maids a-courting; 4. Hickory Dickory Dock,
Fifteen, sixteen, The mouse ran up the clock,
Maids in the kitchen; The clock struck one,
Seventeen, eighteen, The mouse ran down,
Maids a-waiting Hickory Dickory Dock!
Nineteen, twenty,
My plate's empty. Hickory Dickory Dock,
The mouse ran up the clock,
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 The clock struck two, to do;
The mouse said, “boo!” She gave them some broth without any bread;
Hickory Dickory Dock Then whipped them all soundly and put them to
bed.
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The mouse ran up the clock,
The clock struck three, On Poetry
The mouse said, “wee!”
Hickory Dickory Dock! Lyric poems are usually short poems that tell
about feelings or ideas. Often they are written in
Hickory Dickory Dock, the first person. Narritive poems, on the other
The mouse ran up the clock, hand, tell a story.
The clock struck four,
The mouse said, “no more!” Example 1: Lyric poetry
Hickory Dickory Dock!
The Sun and the Moon
 Consonance (一致,調和,和音) By Elaine Laron
5. A flea and a fly
Flew up in a flue. The Sun is filled with shining light
Said the flea, "Let us fly!" It blazes far and wide
Said the fly, "Let us flee!" The Moon reflects the sunlight back
So they flew through a flap in the flue. But has no light inside.

I think I’d better be the Sun

More popular nursery rhymes:
Three Blind Mice
Example 2: Narrative poetry
Three blind mice. Three blind mice.
See how they run. See how they run.
They all ran after the farmer's wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife,
Did you ever see such a sight in your life,
As three blind mice.
That shines so bold and bright
Than be the Moon, that only glows
With someone else’s light.
The Ballad Of A Bachelor by Ellis Parker
Butler
*https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-ballad-of-
a-bachelor/

There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Ballad of a Thin Man by Bob Dylan
Shoe
*https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ballad-thin-man/
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children, she didn't know what
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