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" London Bridge Is Falling Down " (also known as " My Fair Lady " or " London Bridge ") is a traditional English nursery rhyme and singing game, which is found in different versions all over the world. It deals with the dilapidation of London Bridge and attempts, realistic or fanciful, to repair it.
- c. 1744
- Unknown
Mar 11, 2023 · By John Kuroski. Published March 11, 2023. Updated November 9, 2023. The English nursery rhyme "London Bridge is Falling Down" seems innocent on the surface, but some scholars believe it's a reference to immurement — the medieval punishment where a person is locked inside a room until they died.
- John Kuroski
Games and Singing games, Traditional nursery rhymes. “London Bridge Is Falling Down” is a singing game and one of the most popular nursery rhymes, dating back to the 18th century England. It was first published in 1744 in the “Pretty Song Book” collection by Tommy Thumb.
‘London Bridge is Falling Down’ is an English nursery rhyme that has been found in various iterations all over the world. The meaning behind ‘London Bridge is Falling Down’ is not certain. There are several different theories about who the “fair lady” mentioned so frequently in the poem could be.
- Female
- October 9, 1995
- Poetry Analyst And Editor
Sep 18, 2018 · ‘London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down’: this line appears towards the end of one of the greatest poems of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. Of course, the nursery rhyme or children’s song from which Eliot borrowed this line is much older.
Apr 22, 2024 · The content of the traditional song “London Bridge Is Falling Down” deals with repeated attempts to make repairs using metals and mortar. The London Bridge The Romans were the first to build a bridge over the River Thames.
