| LC control no. | gf2014026459 |
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| Thesaurus/term list | lcgft |
| Genre/Form term | Nursery rhymes |
| Variant(s) | Nursery poetry |
| See also | Poetry |
| Found in | The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics, c2012 (Nursery Rhymes. Verses, either spoken or sung, often originating in oral trad. and adult sensibilities but preserved in the world of young children; the term nursery rhyme was not coined until the early 19th c.; before then, these verses were known in England as "songs" or "ditties" and in America as Mother Goose rhymes; nursery rhymes tend to be in accentual verse, often in ballad meter) Genre terms : a thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections cataloging, via WWW, July 15, 2014 (Nursery rhymes. BT Juvenile literature; Poems. NT Accumulative rhymes) OCLC, July 15, 2014 (nursery rhymes; nursery rhymes from Mother Goose; nursery poetry; nursery poems; Mother Goose rhymes; Mother Goose and nursery rhymes; Mother Goose nursery rhymes; Mother Goose verses; Mother Goose poems) Merriam-Webster online, March 6, 2015: (nursery rhyme: a short rhyme for children that often tells a story) |
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