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Accumulative rhymes

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Term Record

Thesaurus	Genre Terms
Term	Accumulative rhymes
Hierarchy	[Literary forms]
SN	Use for nursery rhymes in which the ~~action or dialogue~~ phrases repeat and build up as the verse progresses~~, often a line at a time, in subsequent verses.~~
UF	Cumulative rhymes
BT	Nursery rhymes
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HN	Candidate term, 200907
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Proposed Term:

Accumulative rhymes

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Submitted by:

Jeff Barton (jpbarton@princeton.edu)

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Cumulative tales

UF Cumulative stories

BT Tales

SN Here are entered collections of narratives or tales in which the action or dialogue repeats and builds up as the tale progresses.

670	__ \|a Work cat.: Clarke, J. Stuck in the mud, 2008: \|b p. 4 cover (In this cumulative, rhyming story)
670	__ \|a Monroe County Public Library Predictable Books WWW site, Mar. 30, 2009 \|b (cumulative story: each time a new event occurs, all previous events in the story are repeated)
670	__ \|a A folklore and literature resource for teachers and librarians WWW site, Apr. 3, 2009 \|b (cumulative tales)
670	__ \|a AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus WWW site, Apr. 24, 2009 \|b Cumulative tales (Tales that add incidents on to an initial incident and work up to one long final routine containing the entire sequence)
670	__ \|a Journal of the Royal African Society, 1928 \|b v. 28, p. 1-11 (With regard to the classification of stories, the majority of them fall under one or other of the well-known headings: drolls and cumulative tales; apologues or tales with a moral; atiological stories)
670	__ \|a Journal of Anthropological Research, 1986 \|b v. 42, p. 417-426 (lack of native or borrowed cumulative folktales among the American Indians)

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The child and the book : a psychological and literary exploration / Nicholas Tucker. -- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

"To begin with, there are those accumulative rhymes, lite The House That Jack Built, where each logical step follows with remorseless repetition; losing the story-line in these circumstances would almost be something of a personal triumph." (p. 41)

Wikipedia:

Cumulative tale: In a cumulative tale action or dialogue repeats and builds up as the tale progresses. Such tales depend upon repetition and rhythm for their effect. The climax is sometimes abrupt and sobering as in "The Gingerbread Man." The device often takes the form of a cumulative song or nursery rhyme.

The Oxford dictionary of nursery rhymes / edited by Iona and Peter Opie. -- Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1952.

Entry 258 The house that Jack built:

"An accumulative rhyme which has had immense popularity during the past 150 years, and has probably been more parodide than any other nursery story, ... [printing history] ... It has often been presumed that the original of 'The House that Jack built' is a Hebrew chant, 'Had Gadyo', which was first printed in 1590 in a Prague edition of the Haggadah. The chant, a fine early example of the accumulative story, bears comparison with an English folktale, "The Old Woman and her Pig', but ... This is not to disprove the antiquity of the English rhyme which, as JOH [James Orchard Halliwell, The Nursery Rhymes of England, 1842. Revised and enlarged, 1843, 1844, 1846, 1853, and c. 1860. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales, 1849, and c. 1860.] points out, 'is probably very old, as may be inferred from the mention of the priest all shaven and shorn'. More substantial evidence of its age, however, is shown by the equivalents to the rhyme in European languages." (p. 231)

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Oxford History of Nursery Rhymes, 1997, p. 272 (used in the 'House that Jack Built' entry)

Title: The House that Jack built : a new building on the old foundation / set forth in twelve drawings in colors done in the antient manner from drawings by J.R. Harris ; with annotations and emendations by the man all tattered and torn.

Published/Created: London (67 Chandos Street) ; Belfast (Royal Ulster Works) : Marcus Ward & Co., [1875]

Description: [15] leaves, xii leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm.

Notes: Date from BL.

A list of plates is followed by [4] p. of verse, printed on both sides, each verse stanza describing an illustrated plate; following th\is is the text of the "House that Jack Built," as an accumulation rhyme on 11 leaves, each page adding a line of the poem and followed by a chromolithograph leaf.

Illustrations: Chromolithograph fronts. and 11 plates within color-ruled borders, signed by Ward; decorative t.p. and accumulative rhyme’s text pages in red and black.

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Proposed SN: Use for a children's nursery rhyme in which the action or dialogue repeats and builds up as the story progresses, often a line at a time, in subsequent verses.

(from proposer) A variation of a children's nursery rhyme or poem, in which first verse is a single line to which additional lines are subsequently added, often a line at a time, in subsequent verses. "This is the House that Jack Built" is perhaps the most well-known example. (Often printed with one verse on a page.)

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UF Cumulative rhymes

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BT Nursery rhymes

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