By an incredible coincidence today’s rhyme “Can You Make a Horseshoe?” is the one right after yesterday’s in the Annotated Mother Goose and two before the day before… If I didn’t know any better I’d think I accidentally rigged the game.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I briefly thought of doing today’s rhyme, Henry was a Worthy King, literally until I got to the finally verse and it seemed clear it was a couple of kids playing at kings and queens in the garden. On a side[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Rhyme, “I Doubt, I doubt”, made no sense whatsoever when I read it the first time. I guess it had something to do with a guy going nuts when his wife was out and… when she got home she killed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For today’s nursery rhyme, “Dance Thumbkin, Dance!” I’ve come to the conclusion that children sitting on their parent’s lap is something I have to add to the bin, containing cats and horses, of things I can’t draw without a reference.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I think today’s rhyme, “A Long Tail’d Pig” is more of an example of values dissonance than a when was this ever for kids rhyme. At first I assumed the latter because of… brutality of the life on the farm, butchering[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I found today’s rhyme Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes to be an interesting example of how the language changes… I’d never even seen wanton as a noun before… and even then I think i’m going to have to crack open my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In today’s rhyme, “Miss One, Two, and Three I was briefly confused by what a tea caddy was getting it mixed up with a tea cart when it turned out to be something completely different. Since woman gathering around an actual tea[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ll be completely honest that today’s rhyme, The Village of Erith, made no sense at all. I have the sneaking suspicion it started out as a riddle. To make matters worse, in my confusion I got loom the verb mixed up[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s rhyme “There Was a Man So Wise” was fun to do. While just as silly as the last one at least there was something for me to work with. Really the only thing I needed to check out was if brambles[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s rhyme, Little Jenny Flinders, was pretty straightforward, other than the problem of going period or not (when a poem involves child abuse, it’s safer to go period) From there it was quickly looking up what children wore in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
