Little Jack Horner in the Tudor period. The song’s most common lyrics are: <poem style="margin-left:24px> Little Jack Horner Sat in the corner, Eating his Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I!"</poem> It was first documented in full in the nursery rhyme collection "Mother Goose's melody, or, Sonnets for the cradle", which may date from 1765, although the earliest surviving English edition is from 1791. The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his "National Nursery Rhymes and
Multisyllabic rhymes multisyllabic rhyming: “members of the Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, AZ, Big Pun, Ras Kass, and Elzhi, just to name a few”. Lord Byron (1788-1824) used multisyllabic rhymes in his satiric poem "Don Juan". For example, he rhymes "intellectual" with "hen-peck'd you all". Ogden Nash (1902-1971) used multisyllabic rhymes in a comic, satirical way, as is common in traditional comic poetry. For example, in his poem ‘The Shrimp’ he rhymes "translucence" with "nuisance", and in his poem ‘The Axolotl’ he rhymes "axolotl" with "a bottle" and "whaxolotl". Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) is one of few poets who used multisyllabic rhymes to convey