Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme) these stanzas were viewed as quatrains with internal rhymes, this would be an example of ballad form, a common form for nursery rhymes. 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 Nursery Songs" (1870). The Roud Folk Song Index, which catalogues folk songs and their variations by number, classifies the song as 10266. The phrase "Jack and Jill" was in use in England as early as the 16th century to indicate a boy and a girl. A comedy with the title "Jack
Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes State University of New York at Plattsburgh argues in "Beatrix Potter: Writing in Code" that the charm of "Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes" lies in the illustrations rather than the text, and that the book (like other nursery rhyme collections) is not a sustained narrative but a series of short verses. Such collections are typically unified in style and design, but "Appley Dapply" lacks this unity because the illustrations range over a number of years in which Potter's style changed significantly. The illustrations for the opening verse about Appley Dapply, for example, date from 1891 and reveal an artist with an