TRADITIONAL NURSERY RHYMES

Traditional nursery rhymes have stood the test of time, and are great examples of poetry which reaches the masses. They are good examples of different rhyme and rhythm patterns, and excellent models to have fun with if you fancy rewriting any and making your own alternatives up! Listed below are a number of traditional nursery rhymes for your pleasure; just click on the one that you would like to see. If you would like to know more about writing alternative nursery rhymes, use the TEACHERS’ PAGE, DIFFERENT POETRY FORMS, ALTERNATIVE NURSERY RHYMES.

Little Miss Muffet

19 June 2012

    Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet Eating her curds and whey There came a big spider Who sat down beside her And frightened Miss Muffet away.

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Little Boy Blue

18 June 2012

  Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn The sheep’s in the meadow, the cow’s in the corn But where is the boy who looks after the sheep? He’s under the haystack fast asleep. Will you wake him? No – Not I! For if I do He’ll surely cry!

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Little Bo Peep

18 June 2012

    Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep, And doesn’t know where to find them; Leave them alone, and they’ll come home, Wagging their tails behind them.

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Jack and Jill

18 June 2012

    Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water Jack fell down And broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after Up Jack got and home he trot As fast as he could caper He went to bed to mend his head With vinegar and brown paper.

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Jack Sprat

18 June 2012

    Jack Sprat could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean, And so between them both, you see, They licked the platter clean.

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Incy Wincy Spider

18 June 2012

    Incy Wincy Spider climbed up the spout Down came the raindrops and washed the spider out Out came the sunshine and dried up all the rain Now Incy Wincy Spider climbed up the spout again.

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Humpty Dumpty

18 June 2012

  Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the kings’ horses and all the kings’ men Couldn’t put Humpty together again.

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Hickory Dickory Dock

18 June 2012

    Hickory Dickory Dock. The mouse ran up the clock The clock struck one, The mouse ran down Hickory Dickory Dock

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Georgie Porgie

18 June 2012

    Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie, Kissed the girls and made them cry. When the boys came out to play, Georgie Porgie ran away.  

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Doctor Foster

18 June 2012

  Doctor Foster went to Gloucester In a shower of rain; He stepped in a puddle, Right up to his middle, And never went there again.  

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