| ENDRHYME | ... using ___: "Mary had a little lamb / Its fleece was white as chowder (clam)" |
| WAS | "Mary had a little lamb, its fleece ___E" |
| LITOTES | ... using ___: "Mary had no giant lamb / Its fleece was not unwhite" |
| ONOMATOPOEIA | ... using ___: "Mary had a wee lamb -- baa! / Its fleece was snowy -- whoosh!" |
| HALE | Sarah Josepha ___ ("Mary Had a Little Lamb" poet) |
| QUAHOG | New England chowder clam |
| ALLITERATION | ... using ___: "Lisa loved her little lamb / Its wool was white and waxen" |
| LAMB | "Its fleece was white as snow," in a nursery rhyme |
| ASSNOW | "Its fleece was white ___" |
| ANAPHORA | A rewrite of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" using ___: "A lamb quite little, Mary had / A lamb, fleece whi |
| MARY | She has a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow, and who was sure to go wherever she went |
| ASSONANCE | ... using ___: "Gladys had a bantam lamb / Its hide was white as rice" |
| ITS | "...Mary had a little lamb, ___ fleece was..." |
| ANYEWEVERSE | "Little Bo Peep," "Mary Had a Little Lamb," or the like |
| ABCB | Rhyme scheme of the first verse of "Mary had a little lamb" |
| SARAH | "Mary Had a Little Lamb" penner Hale |
| DITTY | "Mary Had a Little Lamb," e.g. |
| FLEECE | It "was white as snow," in a kid's song |
| HYPERBOLE | ... using ___: "Mary's microscopic lamb / So white, it struck me blind!" |
| SICCAT | It dries, eg as a ram does to its fleece, Ecl. 3.95 |
