Nursery rhyme as a poetic form has as a major function the rhythmic patterns of the rhyme.
The end rhyme was preserved in each nursery rhyme.
Its melodic profile falls somewhere between recitative and a children's nursery rhyme.
The second reduces political theory to the level of a sophisticated nursery rhyme.
As somewhat nonsensical verse the ' meaning ' of a nursery rhyme resides to a degree in the specific set of words and hence the form fosters attention to exact wording.
My children are reciting it as a nursery rhyme.
I close by plagiarising a little nursery rhyme.
That makes it sound like a nursery rhyme.
