This category is for rhymes such as ball-bouncing rhymes, jump-rope rhymes, finger and toe rhymes, dandling rhymes (to bounce children on the knee), counting-out rhymes (to determine who will be "it" in games), and nursery rhymes. Rhyme is a basic stylistic device of verbal folklore, found in such genres as folk poetry, rhyming proverbs and riddles, games, and tales.
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- Jump Rope Rhymes Large collection of folk rhymes that American children chant while skipping rope and playing patty-cake.
- BBB is for BBBear An overview of rhythmic and/or rhyming schoolyard folklore.
- Jump Rope Rhymes Collection of jump rope rhymes.
- The Chinese Boy and Girl Describing Chinese children's nursery rhymes, games, toys, and tales, by Isaac Taylor Headland (1901).