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Free verse is an open form of poetry which does not use a prescribed or regular meter or rhyme [1] and tends to follow the rhythm of natural or irregular speech. Free verse encompasses a large range of poetic form, and the distinction between free verse and other forms (such as prose) is often ambiguous. [2] [3]
The name "Jack Sprat" was used of people of small stature in the 16th century. [1] This rhyme became an English proverb from at least the mid-17th century. [1] It appeared in John Clarke's collection of sayings in 1639 in the form: [1] Jack will eat not fat, and Jull doth love no leane. Yet betwixt them both they lick the dishes cleane.
Fee-fi-fo-fum. " Fee-fi-fo-fum " is the first line of a historical quatrain (or sometimes couplet) famous for its use in the classic English fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk". The poem, as given in Joseph Jacobs ' 1890 rendition, is as follows: to make my bread. Though the rhyme is tetrametric, it follows no consistent metrical foot; however ...
Songwriter (s) unknown. " If wishes were horses, beggars would ride " is a proverb and nursery rhyme, first recorded about 1628 in a collection of Scottish proverbs, [1] which suggests if wishing could make things happen, then even the most destitute people would have everything they wanted. [2] It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20004.
The Little Red Hen. The Little Red Hen, 1918 title page. The Little Red Hen, illustrated by Florence White Williams. The Little Red Hen is an American fable first collected by Mary Mapes Dodge in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1874. [1] The story is meant to teach children the importance of hard work and personal initiative .
Three Billy Goats Gruff. " Three Billy Goats Gruff " ( Norwegian: De tre bukkene Bruse) is a Norwegian fairy tale [1] collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their Norske Folkeeventyr, first published between 1841 and 1844. [2] It has an Aarne-Thompson type of 122E.
Dirty Beasts. Dirty Beasts is a 1983 collection of Roald Dahl poems about unsuspecting animals. [1] Intended to be a follow-up to Revolting Rhymes, the original Jonathan Cape edition was illustrated by Rosemary Fawcett. In 1984, a revised edition was published with illustrations by Quentin Blake.
Illustration of the poem from the 1901 Book of Nursery Rhymes. This is one of many counting-out rhymes. It was first recorded in Mother Goose's Melody around 1765. Like most versions until the late 19th century, it had only the first stanza and dealt with a hare, not a fish, with the words: One, two, three, four and five, I caught a hare alive;