Hickory Dickory Dock! ( Childrens counting song )

Poem Body

Hickory Dickory Dock
The shepherd gathers his flock.
He shears his ewe’s,
In one’s and twos.
Hickory Dickory Dock.

Hickory Dickory Dock
The herdsman looks at the clock.
He stops at three,
to have some tea.
Hickory Dickory Dock.

Hickory Dickory Dock
The farmer rests on a rock.
With four bags full
of soft warm wool,
Hickory Dickory Dock.

Hickory Dickory Dock.
The wife, she knits him a sock.
With five socks more,
strewn on the floor.
Hickory Dickory Dock.

Hickory Dickory Dock
The workhand’s tally his stock.
From naught to ten
and back again.
Hickory Dickory Dock.

About This Poem

Last Few Words: According to Wickipedia: The earliest recorded version of Hickory Dickory Dock is in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, published in London about 1744, which uses the opening line: 'Hickere, Dickere Dock'.[1] The next recorded version in Mother Goose's Melody (c. 1765), uses 'Dickery, Dickery Dock'.[1] The rhyme is thought by some commentators to have originated as a counting-out rhyme.[1] Westmoreland shepherds in the nineteenth century used the numbers 'Hevera' (8), 'Devera' (9) and 'Dick' (10).[1] (See Yan Tan Tethera)

Style/Type: Structured: Western

Review Request Direction: How was my language use?
What did you think of the rhythm or pattern or pacing?
How does this theme appeal to you?
How was the beginning/ending of the poem?
Is the internal logic consistent?

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Not actively editing

About the Author

Country/Region: GBR

Comments

Mand

You is being fun
with this twisting tongue
Me being so young
I started another one

Yan Tan Tethera
Got me self some leather a
Gonna make a plethora
Of shoes to wear to work..
La La
Great write we should dickere some more docks or rewrite some nursery rhymes,
Yours Ian.T

Hi Ian

Glad you liked it! I like yours better! really funny. Dickering some more Dock would be fun! Ha ha
especially with your sense of humour!

Thanks again!

Love Mand xxx

P.s sorry about abscence - it's manic here over the school hols. I've got a house full of grandchildren and the computer has to be fought over! Ha aaaaaa.

Mand

Got in a bit of a tiz
Cus I thought that I was a wiz
But I being from Wiltshire
got into a mire
Didn't know me wiz from me tiz
Which is sad it is.

I shall retire and be
a Moonraker you see
There be less trouble in thur
As life is a blurr
As I is now past 7 T
I better think not of you
But more of me He He
Love Ian.T

Ha ha

You crack me up Ian - ha ha

I hope you've published this!!!!

Mand xxxx

nicely done Mand

enjoyable take on this nursery rhyme. I have done a few too which the kids loved, but their parents weren't overjoyed about lol.