THREE ENGLISH RHYMES

Kinder garden is a childhood phase about which we may not remember many things, but when it comes to the point of rhymes, we with much joy and gaiety, happy to recollect and remember those beautiful lines which we learned with whole lot of classmates doing some naughty works alongside this.

Twinkle Twinkle little star

 How I wonder what you are

Up above the world so high

Like a diamond in the sky

These four lines are the first one that I learnt as a rhyme. After completing my post- graduation,  one day I thought to know more about this and great to read about it in this link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkle,_Twinkle,_Little_Star

 hickory dickory dock

the mouse ran up the clock

the clock struck one

the mouse ran down

hickory dickory  dock

This rhyme I repeated many a times at home, as there were many rats in our house. I waited standing before the clock to see whether the rat climb up to the clock? It never happened. ours was a simple wall clock. The rats ran through- out the house, biting gunny bags and plastic containers, but never reached the clock point…………. The spelling of hickory and dickory  was not known to me till my high school. The link below provides a whole set of information about this rhyme. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickory_Dickory_Dock

One two buckle my shoe

Three four shut the door

Five six pickup sticks

Seven eight lay them straight

Nine ten a big fat hen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One,_Two,_Buckle_My_Shoe

This was the other rhyme which I loved repeating often, as this carried numbers and easy for me to learn. I felt hard to recite long rhymes and big words in those days. Even for these rhymes the link provided above shows more stanzas available in the rhyme. But we were thought just one stanza in schools. I’m really thankful for my teachers for not teaching all those stanzas, otherwise I would have not learnt at least this much.