This Is the House That Jack Built was printed in numerous collections in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Randolph Caldecott produced an illustrated version in 1878. Cherrington Manor, a handsome timber-framed house in North East Shropshire, England, is reputed to be the actual house that Jack built. There is a former malt house in the grounds. Each sentence in the story is an example of an increasingly deeply nested relative clause. The last version, "This is the horse...", would be quite difficult to untangle if the previous ones were not present. See the Noun Phrase for more details about postmodification of the noun phrase in
Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme) part of the nursery rhyme. Early versions took the form: By the early 20th century this had been modified in some collections, such as L. E. Walter's, "Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes" (London, 1919) to: A third verse, sometimes added to the rhyme, was first recorded in a 19th-century chapbook and took Twentieth-century versions of this verse include: As presented above and as presented in the accompanying published images, the rhyme is made up of six-line stanzas with a rhyming scheme of "aabccb" and a trochaic rhythm (with the stress falling on the first of a pair of syllables). Alternatively, if