Rhymes Literature Folklore

Rhymes

This category is for rhymes such as ball-bouncing rhymes, jump-rope rhymes, finger and toe rhymes, dandling rhymes (to bounce children on the knee), counting-out rhymes (to determine who will be "it" in games), and nursery rhymes. Rhyme is a basic stylistic device of verbal folklore, found in such genres as folk poetry, rhyming proverbs and riddles, games, and tales.

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• - Several versions of an American folk rhyme.
  
• - An overview of rhythmic and/or rhyming schoolyard folklore.
  
• - Traditional and kid's jump rope rhymes.
  
• - Verbal tradition of taunting combining elements of aggression, strategy, and poetry.
  
• - Article on Russian children's taunts.
  
• - A collection of the folk rhymes that American children chant while choosing "it" in games; part of a larger site on children's games.
  
• - A catalog of schoolyard songs, limericks and ditties.
  
• - Collection of American children's folk rhymes for taunting, playing patty-cake, and skipping rope.
  
• - Schoolyard rhymes sent in by children to Splatt.
  
• - Describing Chinese children's nursery rhymes, games, toys, and tales, by Isaac Taylor Headland (1901).
  
• - Collection of jump rope rhymes.
  
  

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