Anonymous British

Dickery Dickery Dock

Dickery, dickery dock, The mouse ran up the clock; The clock struck one, The mouse ran down, Dickery, dickery dock. Composition date is unknown - the above date represents the first publication date. The lyrical form of this poem is aabba. 1. Cf. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, ed. Iona and Peter Opie (1951\; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966), no. 217, pp. 206-07. The Opies' version begins, "Hickory, dickory, dock," and the terms "dimity" and "ziccoty" start the verse elsewhere.