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Fee-fi-fo-fum

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"Fee-fi-fo-fum" is the first line of a historical quatrain (or sometimes couplet) famous for its use in the classic English fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk". [1]

28 relations: Antony and Cleopatra, Assonance, Celts, Chapbook, Charles Mackay (author), Childe Rowland, Couplet, Dactylic tetrameter, English folklore, Fairy tale, Foot (prosody), Goidelic languages, Have with You to Saffron-Walden, Iambic tetrameter, Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack the Giant Killer, Joseph Jacobs, King Lear, Leir of Britain, Mark Antony, Perfect and imperfect rhymes, Quatrain, Syllable, Tetrameter, Thomas Nashe, Thunderdell, Trochaic tetrameter, William Shakespeare.

Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare.

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Assonance

Assonance is a resemblance in the sounds of words or syllables either between their vowels (e.g., meat, bean) or between their consonants (e.g., keep, cape).

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Celts

The Celts (see pronunciation of ''Celt'' for different usages) were an Indo-European people in Iron Age and Medieval Europe who spoke Celtic languages and had cultural similarities, although the relationship between ethnic, linguistic and cultural factors in the Celtic world remains uncertain and controversial.

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Chapbook

A chapbook is a type of popular literature printed in early modern Europe.

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Charles Mackay (author)

Charles Mackay (27 March 1814 – 24 December 1889) was a Scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist, and songwriter, remembered mainly for his book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.

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Childe Rowland

"Childe Rowland" is a fairy tale, the most popular version written by Joseph Jacobs in his English Fairy Tales, published in 1890.

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Couplet

A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry.

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Dactylic tetrameter

Dactylic tetrameter is a metre in poetry.

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English folklore

English folklore is the folk tradition which has developed in England over a number of centuries.

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Fairy tale

A fairy tale, wonder tale, magic tale, or Märchen is folklore genre that takes the form of a short story that typically features entities such as dwarfs, dragons, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, griffins, mermaids, talking animals, trolls, unicorns, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments.

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Foot (prosody)

The foot is the basic repeating rhythmic unit that forms part of a line of verse in most Western traditions of poetry, including English accentual-syllabic verse and the quantitative meter of classical ancient Greek and Latin poetry.

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Goidelic languages

The Goidelic or Gaelic languages (teangacha Gaelacha; cànanan Goidhealach; çhengaghyn Gaelgagh) form one of the two groups of Insular Celtic languages, the other being the Brittonic languages.

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Have with You to Saffron-Walden

"Have With You To Saffron-Walden, Or, Gabriell Harveys hunt is up" is the title of a pamphlet written by Thomas Nashe and published in London in late 1596 by John Danter.

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Iambic tetrameter

Iambic tetrameter is a meter in poetry.

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Jack and the Beanstalk

"Jack and the Beanstalk" is an English fairy tale.

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Jack the Giant Killer

"Jack the Giant Killer" is an English fairy tale and legend about a young adult who slays a number of giants during King Arthur's reign.

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Joseph Jacobs

Joseph Jacobs (29 August 1854 – 30 January 1916) was an Australian folklorist, translator, literary critic, social scientist, historian and writer of English literature who became a notable collector and publisher of English folklore.

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King Lear

King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.

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Leir of Britain

Leir was a legendary king of the Britons whose story was recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his pseudohistorical 12th-century History of the Kings of Britain.

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Mark Antony

Marcus Antonius (Latin:; 14 January 1 August 30 BC), commonly known in English as Mark Antony or Marc Antony, was a Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic from an oligarchy into the autocratic Roman Empire.

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Perfect and imperfect rhymes

Perfect rhyme—also called full rhyme, exact rhyme, or true rhyme—is a form of rhyme between two words or phrases, satisfying the following conditions.

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Quatrain

A quatrain is a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines.

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Syllable

A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds.

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Tetrameter

In poetry, a tetrameter is a line of four metrical feet.

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Thomas Nashe

Thomas Nashe (baptised November 1567 – c. 1601) is considered the greatest of the English Elizabethan pamphleteers.

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Thunderdell

Thunderdell, also recorded as Thunderdel, Thunderel, Thundrel, Thunderdale, or Thunderbore, was a two-headed giant of Cornwall slain by Jack the Giant-Killer in the stories of Tabart and others.

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Trochaic tetrameter

Trochaic tetrameter is a meter in poetry.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee-fi-fo-fum

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