 It is a single quatrain with external rhymes that follow the pattern of AABB and with a trochaic metre , which is common in nursery rhymes . The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs ( London , 1870 ) . The Roud Folk Song Index catalogues folk songs and their variations by number , and classifies this song as 13026 . 
 It <a href='drop_aux' title='1'><mark>is</mark></a>a single quatrain with external rhymes <a href='null_relcl' title='2'><mark>that</mark></a>follow the pattern of AABB and with a trochaic metre , which <a href='drop_aux' title='3'><mark>is</mark></a>common in nursery rhymes . The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs ( London , 1870 ) . The Roud Folk Song Index catalogues folk songs and their variations by number , and <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>classifies</mark></a> this song as 13026 . 
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