Nursery rhymes

found: 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)

found: 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)

found: 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)

found: Merriam-Webster online, March 6, 2015:(nursery rhyme: a short rhyme for children that often tells a story)

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