Nursery Rhyme Poems - Examples of all types of nursery rhyme poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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The Bottle Gourd RhymeI am tall, I am slender,
Light Green but not cucumber.
Have a snout, have a tail,
Found in market & even retail.
Packed with Vitamin C, K & Calcium,
I punch my weight in nutrition.
Eat me & get a...
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Categories:
nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Wriggily Piggily
Oh! You wriggle
like a little piggle!
When you wiggle,
you make me giggle!
When you jiggle
you prompt a squiggle
and then I sniggle
at your marble miggle.
...
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Categories:
animal, nonsense, nursery rhyme,
Form: Monorhyme
No Oats-dodo
Categories:
nursery rhyme, animal, cute, food, fun,
Form: Dodoitsu
The Rest of the Story
- the rest of the story for Hickory Dickory Dock -
Hickory dickory dock,
The mouse wound the clock,
At half past twelve
The clock said it was one
And so the clock was wrong
Hickory dickory dock
The mouse wound...
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Categories:
nursery rhyme,
Form: Free verse
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep - the rest of the story
Baa, baa, black sheep
Had all his wool stolen
From of his back, back, back
He put a bat man mask on
With a flash light in hand
stealthily into the master,
dame, and little boy’s home
as they slept and...
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Categories:
nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Humpty DumptyHumpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men,
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
The Queen’s seamstresses they tried to sew,
The footman with glue he had a...
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Categories:
fun, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Hickory Dickory DockHickory Dickory Dock,
The mouse hushed up the clock.
But Cuckoo caught him by his tail,
Now mouse is serving time in jail.
...
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Categories:
bird, nursery rhyme, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Call 988When they made Humpty Dumpty
He turned out to be grumpy
Because of his fragile state
He's not to make a mistake
A padded path, made for him
Full of cotton, thick not thin
He must go only this way
He wants...
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Categories:
nursery rhyme, allusion, analogy, angst, character,
Form: Rhyme
Justice for Humpty Dumpty
***Humpty Dumpty***
When I heard Humpty-Dumpty fell,
the next day I was on the move.
I went and pled with Sherlock Holmes:
“That he was murdered, you can prove!”
He nabbed three suspects right away.
The...
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Categories:
judgement, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Yankee Doodle
In 1755 a British army medical surgeon Richard Shuckburgh, while campaigning in
Rensselaer New York, penned the nursery rhyme Yankee Doodle. This was used to mock
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Categories:
nursery rhyme, independence day, military, nursery
Form: Rhyme
DistanceDistance
I was four and so were you.
You live there, and I live there too.
For seven years passing, living here,
Your face can't be seen anywhere.
I was twelve and so were you.
You live there, and I live...
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Categories:
nursery rhyme, age, crush, friendship, growing
Form: Rhyme
LITTLE BO PEEPLITTLE BO PEEP
Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep
And doesn’t know where to find them.
Leave them alone and they’ll come home,
Bringing their tails behind them
But, after a week, they hadn’t returned
So she notified the police,
Who...
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Categories:
animal, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Bambi
The story of Bambi and his delightful friends Thumper, the rabbit, and Flower,
the skunk, his mother and father, The Great Prince of the Forest has been
read to kids for years. It is...
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Categories:
nursery rhyme,
Form: Verse
Rest of the Story - Hickory, Dickory, Dock
Hickory, dickory, dock.
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck nine,
It was past the deadline!
He missed an interview,
the job fell through.
He fell sadly to his knees,
no paycheck for cheese....
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Categories:
nursery rhyme, animal, food, jobs, money,
Form: Rhyme
Little Bo Peep
Little Bo Peep fell fast asleep
And her fleece went into hiding
They weren't behaving as good ewes should
Lost in a wood with Red Riding Hood.
In the wood a frightful wolf stood
With his jaws a-salivating
The...
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Categories:
nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Nursery Rhyme Poems
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