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  2. 20 Popular Short Poems for Kids - AOL

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    Best poems for kids Between nursery rhymes, storybooks (especially Dr. Seuss), and singalongs, children are surrounded by poetry every single day without even realizing. Besides just bringing joy ...

  3. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star - Wikipedia

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    "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is an English lullaby. The lyrics are from an early-19th-century English poem written by Jane Taylor, "The Star". [1] The poem, which is in couplet form, was first published in 1806 in Rhymes for the Nursery, a collection of poems by Taylor and her sister Ann.

  4. Kenn Nesbitt - Wikipedia

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    Being children's poems, many make fun of school life. He wrote his first children's poem, "Scrawny Tawny Skinner", in 1994. In 1997, he decided to write his first poetry book, My Foot Fell Asleep, which was published in 1998. Nesbitt's poem "The Tale of the Sun and the Moon", was used in the 2010 movie Life as We Know It.

  5. Poetry for Neanderthals - Wikipedia

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    The game was released in June 2020 and marketed for families to play during the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of the design of the game, it is also able to be played by groups using videoconferencing software such as Zoom , which permitted the growth of the game while people faced lockdowns .

  6. Rhyme scheme - Wikipedia

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    A 1 abA 2 A 1 abA 2 – Two stanzas, where the first lines of both stanzas are exactly the same, and the last lines of both stanzas are the same. The second lines of the two stanzas are different, but rhyme at the end with the first and last lines. (In other words, all the "A" and "a" lines rhyme with each other, but not with the "b" lines.)

  7. Jack and Jill - Wikipedia

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    Among other changes in the poem, Jack's injuries are treated, not with vinegar and brown paper, but "spread all over with sugar and rum". There were also radical changes in the telling of the story in America. Among the Juvenile Songs rewritten and set to music by Fanny E. Lacy (Boston 1852) was a six-stanza version of Jack and Jill. Having ...

  8. All in the golden afternoon... - Wikipedia

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    "All in the golden afternoon" is the preface poem in Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.The introductory poem recalls the afternoon that he improvised the story about Alice in Wonderland while on a boat trip from Oxford to Godstow, for the benefit of the three Liddell sisters: Lorina Charlotte (the flashing "Prima"), Alice Pleasance (the hoping "Secunda"), and Edith ...

  9. Cumulative song - Wikipedia

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    In each verse, the text of the first line introduces a new item, and the other line uses the words to begin a list which includes items from all the preceding verses. The item is typically a new phrase (simultaneously a group of words and a musical phrase) to a line in a previous stanza. The two lines are often separated by refrains.