Era una paloma
A rhyme about punctuation...
Era una paloma
It was a Pigeon
Rima para jugar a las palmas
Hand Clapping Rhyme
(Spanish)
(English)
Era una paloma,
Punto y coma,
Que dejó su nido,
Punto y seguido,
Que se fue pa' marte,
Punto y aparte,
Pobre animal,
Punto final.
It was a pigeon,
Semicolon,
That left its nest,
Stop, new sentence,*
It went to Mars,
New paragraph,
Poor animal,
Full stop.
Notes
*This term doesn't exist in English typography, it means that you go on writing on the same line.
Thanks and Acknowledgements
Translated by Mama Lisa and Tatie Monique.
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