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Meanings of nursery poem in English

Russian
малые жанры фольклора
Portuguese
cantiga de roda
Spanish
música infantil
Catalan
rima de guarderia
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Traditional song or poem for children.

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      малые жанры фольклора
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      Examples for "nursery rhyme"
      Examples for "nursery rhyme"
      1
      It's a nursery rhyme and she learned all the lyrics by heart.
      The Guardian
      2
      This explains the nursery rhyme which you have no doubt often heard-
      St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, ...
      3
      She recognized it by the morbid nursery rhyme scrawled near the entrance.
      A Day Dark as Night
      4
      They're the ten little soldier boys of the nursery rhyme, I suppose.
      And Then There Were None
      5
      Did I sing a nursery rhyme to a tune all one note?
      Parkhurst Boys, and Other Stories of School Life
      1
      When I sang nursery rhymes to the kids, he was like: 'Stop.
      The Guardian
      2
      Forget airline food -Gervais throws a poison dart at nursery rhymes.
      Wired
      3
      There is a hidden significance in some of the nursery rhymes.
      Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide
      4
      I sing nursery rhymes with him, and I read to him in French.
      The red queen
      5
      In 1990, he released an album made up largely of children's nursery rhymes.
      Reuters
      1
      Mother Goose rhymes abound in these nonsense refrains, and they are often fine examples of onomatopoeia.
      A Nonsense Anthology
      2
      Even the original sociopolitical meanings of Mother Goose rhymes are lost to the majority of people today.
      Mastering your Hidden Self
      3
      They can now rattle off scientific truths about their little digestions as fluently as Mother Goose rhymes.
      Dear Enemy
      4
      "I had a book of Mother Goose rhymes when I was a little kid," I said.
      Your sad eyes and unforgettable mouth
      5
      It was an old Mother Goose rhyme that she hummed over and over, in a low voice at first, but louder as she walked on.
      The Gate of the Giant Scissors
      1
      The old Czech nursery song has an original perspective on where words may come from.
      Radio NZ
      2
      Ironical Bakkus began to hum the old nursery song:
      The Mountebank
      3
      Macaulay adduces as an example of this measure, the following line from the well-known nursery song:
      The Interdependence of Literature
      4
      Those are ENGLISHMEN, those are, and your master whenever you please,' as the nursery song says.
      The Book of Snobs
      5
      From Ann Taylor's nursery song 'My Mother.'
      Charles Dickens and Music
      1
      She was like the Grim White Woman in the nursery ballads.
      "My Novel" — Volume 06
      Usage of nursery poem in English
      1
      The most ordinary effect of fatigue upon this young lady was to make her resemble the hero of the nursery poem-
      Beechcroft at Rockstone
      2
      And she resolutely set herself to repeat one of the nursery poems of her childhood, till, wooed by its silly monotony, sleep came.
      Elizabeth's Campaign
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