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Playground poetry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Greg Myers
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Abstract

An analysis of the rhymes and linguistic tricks used by schoolchildren

Type
Research Article
Information
English Today , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , April 1994 , pp. 35 - 41
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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