What is it about?
This article focuses on the temporal shape that Christina Rossetti imposed upon the collection of nursery rhymes entitled Sing-Song. Through the course of the volume, she tells the story of life from birth to death, morning to night, winter to fall. The sequential arrangement of lyrics in Sing-Song allows readers to understand life as coherent and meaningful.
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Why is it important?
The article is important because it demonstrates Rossetti's characteristic attention to form and content within rhymes for the very young. As such, it emphasizes the poet's technical virtuosity as well as the vigor of nursery rhyme as a genre.
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This page is a summary of: Sound, Sense, and Structure in Christina Rossetti's Sing-Song, Children s Literature, January 1994, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/chl.0.0141.
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