Nursery rhymes are short poems written for children, which emphasize meter and rhyme, and are usually circulated orally. Many nursery rhymes are gradually processed and spread according to the idioms in ancient ceremonies, or processed with later historical events as the theme.
Poetry is a nursery rhyme.
Nursery rhymes have two main characteristics:
First, they are catchy and easy to understand;
second, it is interesting and fun, and children are interested.
Children's understanding of the surrounding things is still relatively simple and limited to word of mouth. Therefore, the length of nursery rhymes should be short and exquisite, and the structure should be simple and uncomplicated. Common nursery rhymes are generally only four, six and eight short sentences, and of course there are longer ones. In terms of the number of words in each sentence, there are three words, four words, five words, seven words and miscellaneous words. Three sentences, five sentences and seven sentences are the basic sentence patterns. Short and simple, it is naturally easy to learn and sing.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Nursery Rhymes