Listen to the Music: The traditional Nursery Rhyme is
as follows:
Clap your
hands, clap your hands,
Listen to the
music and clap your hands.
Stamp your
feet, stamp your feet,
Listen to the
music and stamp your feet.
Turn around,
turn around,
Listen to the
music and turn around.
Jump up high,
jump up high
Listen to the
music and jump up high.
Clap your
hands, clap your hands,
Listen to the
music and clap your hands.
http://www.twigglemagazine.com/March-activities/clap-your-hands-song.html
We will re-do this in dactyl-trochaic plus iambic beats.
Listen to
music
Listen to
music,—
Listen to
music
And clap your
hands.
Listen to
music
Listen to
music,—
Listen to
music
And stamp
your foot.
Listen to
music
Listen to
music,—
Listen to
music
And turn
around.
Listen to
music
Listen to
music,—
Listen to
music
And jump up
high.
Listen to
music,
Listen to
music.
Listen to
music,
Listen to
music.
And here is one version of the first two stanzas of
“Twinkle, twinkle, little star”, with the first three falling feet , trochees, bringing their childlike
intimacy closer to us; the last stressed monosyllable is treated as an iamb: Twin'kle,| twin'kle,| litt'le| star'|.
Twinkle,
twinkle, little star,
How I wonder
what you are?
Up above the
world so high,
Like a
diamond in the sky
When the burning sun is set,
When the grass
with dew is wet,
Then you show
your little light,
Twinkle,
twinkle all the night.
The joint authors of “Twinkle, twinkle, little star”
were two sisters called Ann Taylor (1782-1866) and Jane Taylor (1783-1824).
The first publication date was 1806.
See the following for details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkle_Twinkle_Little_Star