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==Lyrics and melody== The rhyme is well known in the English language. The common text from 1882 is:<ref>{{cite book|page=72|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MVoWAAAAYAAJ|title=Yale Songs. A Collection of Songs in Use by the Glee Club and Students of Yale College|year=1882|editor=Francis Bartlett Kellogg|publisher=Shepard & Kellogg}}</ref> <blockquote><poem> Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again. </poem></blockquote> It is a single [[quatrain]] with external rhymes<ref>J. Smith, ''Poetry Writing'' (Teacher Created Resources, 2002), {{ISBN|0-7439-3273-0}}, p. 95.</ref> that follow the pattern of AABB and with a [[trochaic]] metre, which is common in nursery rhymes.<ref>P. Hunt, ed., ''International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature'' (London: Routledge, 2004), {{ISBN|0-203-16812-7}}, p. 174.</ref> The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by composer and nursery rhyme collector [[James William Elliott]] in his ''National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs'' (London, 1870), as outlined below:<ref>J. J. Fuld, ''The Book of World-Famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk'' (Courier Dover Publications, 5th ed., 2000), {{ISBN|0-486-41475-2}}, p. 502.</ref> <score sound="1"> \new Staff << \clef treble \key bes \major { \time 6/8 \partial 2. \relative d' { d4 f8 es4 g8 | f8 g a bes4. | d,4 f8 es4 g8 | f8 d bes c4. \bar"" \break d8 d f es es g | f8 g a bes4. | d8 d bes es es d | c8 bes a bes4. \bar"" \break } } %\new Lyrics \lyricmode { %} >> \layout { indent = #0 } \midi { \tempo 4. = 56 } </score>
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