Outline of English Verse Rhythms

Ryota Iijima, teacher, Fukushima University


Verses to Be Read, Learned, and Talked About

Part 1: Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes: Noted Verses for the Very Young

Jack, Be Nimble
Roses Are Red: For Valentine's Day
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
Hickory, Dickory, Dock
Georgie Porgie
Star Light, Star Bright
Rain, rain, go away
Jack Sprat
Little Jack Horner
Diddle Diddle Dumpling
Humpty Dumpty
The Ten O'Clock Scholar
Thirty Days Hath September,
Little Miss Muffet
To the Lady bird: Or, Ladybug, Ladybug
Rock-a-Bye, Baby: Or, Hush-a-Bye, Baby
The Cat and the Fiddle
Ride a Cock-Horse
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Now I lay me down to sleep
Three Blind Mice
There Was a Little Girl
This Little Pig: Or, This Little Piggie
Little Boy Blue
Hot-Cross Buns
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Old King Cole
There Was an Old Woman
Mary's Lamb
Sing a Song of Sixpence
Jack and Jill
Simple Simon
Little Bo-Peep
Old Mother Hubbard
The House That Jack Built

Part 2 For Boys and Girls: Noted Verses by Noted Writers

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Trees
Bed in Summer
Concord Hymn
My Shadow
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
O Captain! My Captain!
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
'Twas the Night Before Christmas: Or, Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas
Casey at the Bat
The Landlord's Tale; Paul Revere's Ride
The Raven
The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Part 3: Poems for Men and Women

Poems in The Top 500 Poems, edited by William Harmon


Keywords

alliteration, character, couplet, epic, fairy tale, fiction, folk tale, free verse, hero, heroine, limerick, metaphor, meter, Mother Goose, narrator, nursery rhyme, play, playwright, poem, poetry, prose, rhyme, rhyme scheme, simile, stanza, verse