I pretty much went with the annotation for my approach to today’s rhyme “Hey ding, a ding, what shall I sing?” because taking it straight made no sense at all. Apparently it refers to traveling singers performing for a meal…[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s rhyme, The Tailor’s Courtship, had me stumped until I figured all it was was the tailor’s fantasy of his love and nothing more. It was amusing that the narrator is describing everything in terms of his profession. After that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t have much to say about today’s rhyme, “The Old Man With Five Hens”, unless it was somehow a riddle since no matter how I looked at it there seemed to be more names than the stated number of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wasn’t particularly inspired by today’s rhyme “ Rock a Cradle Empty” except for finding some whimsy in the politics of marriage that probably never occurred to whoever wrote this. It just occurred to me how grammar changes over time[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s rhyme, A Man Went Hunting in Reigate, is the first limerick I’ve done in this challenge and certainly one of the more entertaining ones. Once again the biggest challenge was looking up the correct way to hold a rifle… I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s interesting that while it’s traditional to dress up animals in clothes in these poems, today’s rhyme, Pussy Cat Mole Jumped Over a Coal, is the first one I’ve come across where it’s mandatory. Not getting into my inability to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been wondering if the phrase “Red Herring” comes from today’s rhyme, “The Man in the Wilderness Asked Me”, or if it goes even farther back. Personally I had always thought it was a needle in the haystack kind of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well today’s rhyme, “Magpie, Magpie, Chatter and Flee,” was easy just draw a magpie flying and bobbing it’s tail, with no narrative at all. I was tempted to add a child watching them, but then why complicate things. So in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was worried that I was beginning to show signs of fatigue based on what I thought of the last couple of pictures but happily after today’s rhyme, There Were Three Cooks of Colenbrook, I feel much better! My only[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well… in my defense I thought my idea for how to do today’s rhyme, “Who killed Cock Robin?” was a good one when I started… The problem this was the first long story with a narrative I’ve had to do[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
