Old farmer Jack gazed on his wheat,
And feared the frost would nip it.
Said he, "it's nearly seven feet -
I must begin to strip 'it.
He stripped it with a stripper and
He bagged it with a bagger;
The bags were all so lumpy that
They made the bumper stagger.
The lumper staggered up the stack
Where he was told to stack it;
And Jack was paid and put the cash
Inside his linen jacket.
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children, indeed
"Old Farmer Jack" is a cute assortment of nouns in variations, like a child would expand thought with the same vocabulary as if conjugating a named thing's use. And it's not overrated to have it raked from verb to noun to another such as :
"He bagged it with a bagger;
The bags were all so lumpy that"
that helps denote not only content but parts of speech for the young audience of the simple story. It was all normal of figuring out something plain in the plains for grins of planning it...
The first stanza derives speech from allegory spread out for some reality, it seems.
The strict always at first and then casual every other line rhyme allows a different second entertainment of predicates etcetera in the phrasing to not be overwhelming but fun at its time.
I think both concepts of what can be pointed out about patterns in the way we can talk are brought together with :
"The lumper staggered up the stack
Where he was told to stack it;
And Jack was paid and put the cash
Inside his linen jacket."
as it can be seen how things seem to match yet are parallel like stack it/ jacket and up the stack/ stack it.
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