Little Poll Parrot
{{short description|Nursery rhyme}}
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| type = Nursery rhyme
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| published = 1853{{cn|date=November 2024}}
| writer = Unknown
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"Little Poll Parrot" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20178.
Lyrics
Like Little Miss Muffet and Little Jack Horner the verse is an example of a nursery rhyme that contains six dactylic lines. The most common modern version of the lyrics is:
:Little Poll Parrot
:Sat in his garret
:Eating toast and tea;
:A little brown mouse
:Jumped into the house,
:And stole it all away.I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 353.
Origins
It has been argued that the rhyme originates in the seventeenth century.{{cite book |title=International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature |last=Hunt |first=Peter |year=1998 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=0-415-08856-9 |page=[https://archive.org/details/internationalcom00hunt_0/page/178 178] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/internationalcom00hunt_0/page/178 }} The earliest printed version was in a collection by James Orchard Halliwell in the 1840s.
Notes
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