Nursery Song 'All Through The Night'

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I choose [All Through the Night] Nursery song on page 1135 of The Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature. This nursery song has repetitive lines and exact rhyme in each of its stanzas. [All Through the Night] Nursery song has six stanzas. This nursery song has parallelism repeated with the same lines in each of the six stanzas of the nursery song. Although it has a particular difference of each stanza compared with even stanzas and odd stanzas for example, the first, third, and fifth stanzas the parallelism line that is repeated is “All through the night”. This is repeated in the lines (2, 4) in the first stanza, (10,12) in the third stanza, and in the (18, 20) in the fifth stanza. In the second, fourth and six stanzas, the repeated line

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