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Hey Diddle Diddle
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"Hey Diddle Diddle" is an English nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19478.
Illustration from W. W. Denslow's Mother Goose (1901)
Illustration from W. W. Denslow's Mother Goose (1901)
From Denslow's Mother Goose (1901)
From Denslow's Mother Goose (1901)
In this Randolph Caldecott rendition, a dish, spoon, and other utensils are anthropomorphized while a cat in a red jacket holds a fiddle in the manner
In this Randolph Caldecott rendition, a dish, spoon, and other utensils are anthropomorphized while a cat in a red jacket holds a fiddle in the manner of a string bass.
"High Diddle Diddle" illustrated by Frederick Richardson for the Holland edition of Mother Goose (1915)
"High Diddle Diddle" illustrated by Frederick Richardson for the Holland edition of Mother Goose (1915)
Literary nonsense
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Literary nonsense is a broad categorization of literature that balances elements that make sense with some that do not, with the effect of subverting language conventions or logical reasoning. Even th
Hey Diddle Diddle
…Although there is some support for the trap-ball theory, scholarly commentators mostly conclude the rhyme is simply meant to be nonsense verse, a type of literary nonsense. List of nursery rhymes…
John Tenniel's depiction of the nonsense creatures in Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"
John Tenniel's depiction of the nonsense creatures in Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"