Nursery Rhyme. Cxxxviii. Songs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEFE BGHG IBJB KLML| The first line of this nursery rhyme is quoted in Beaumont and Fletcher's Bonduca Act v sc It is probable also that Sir Toby alludes to this song in Twelfth Night Act ii sc when he says Come on there is sixpence for you let's have a song In Epulario or the Italian banquet is a receipt to make pies so that the birds may be alive in them and flie out when it is cut up a mere device live birds being introduced after the pie is made This may be the original subject of the following song | A |
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| Sing a song of sixpence | B |
| A bag full of rye | C |
| Four and twenty blackbirds | B |
| Baked in a pie | C |
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| When the pie was open'd | D |
| The birds began to sing | E |
| Was not that a dainty dish | F |
| To set before the king | E |
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| The king was in his counting house | B |
| Counting out his money | G |
| The queen was in the parlour | H |
| Eating bread and honey | G |
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| The maid was in the garden | I |
| Hanging out the clothes | B |
| There came a little blackbird | J |
| And snapt off her nose | B |
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| Jenny was so mad | K |
| She didn't know what to do | L |
| She put her finger in her ear | M |
| And crackt it right in two | L |
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