Where do rhymes from the nursery link to adult poetry? Many children would know rhymes like 'Roses are red, violets are blue' but is it a nursery rhyme or an adult rhyme used by children? General spoofing of rhymes, for instance 'Roses are red' or even 'Mary had a Little Lamb' doesn't really seem very adult.
Of course a lot of them started off as adult's rhymes or folk songs, 'Thou shall have a fishy' for example, but things like 'Waltzing Matilda' definitely just remains a folk songs. But what 'A Frog he would a-wooing go?' Things are a bit mixed up here.
Although such poetic conceits as using the word o'er seem to be gone in nursery rhymes, the idea of speaking of public has been placed in a rhyme-'The train I arrived in has not yet come in, so I took the bus and walked.'
There are of course a lot of children's rhymes which aren't nursery rhymes, the poems of Edward Lear, 'The Night Before Christmas' and so on.
This leads to the question where can new rhymes come from? Could something like 'Yellow Submarine' be turned into such a rhyme? It would seem possible, given the development spoken above. It does seem like nursery rhymes and songs are on the wain, most parents singing pop songs to their children, but they may yet have a Renaissance. Although nursery rhymes seem to have a cut off point of about 11, they seem to stay with as adults in a way.
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