Jump-rope scansion

Rosemary Wells on illustrating Mother Goose:

"Among my favorites are the jump-rope rhymes because they come from the children themselves..... When children repeat something hundreds and hundreds of times, you know it's going to scan well and there's not going to be an extra syllable. That kind of poetry is so completely rounded and beautiful that the sense of it doesn't matter.

'Manchester Guardian,
Evening News,
Here comes a cat
in high-heeled shoes.' "

(Show Me a Story!, ed. Leonard Marcus)