<P> Though the rhyme is tetrametric, it follows no consistent metrical foot; however, the respective verses correspond roughly to monosyllabic tetrameter, dactylic tetrameter, trochaic tetrameter, and iambic tetrameter . The poem has historically made use of assonant half rhyme . </P> <P> The rhyme may have originated with the ballad Childe Rowland . </P> <P> It appears in the pamphlet Haue with You to Saffron - Walden (published in 1596) written by Thomas Nashe (who mentions that the rhyme was already old and its origins obscure): </P> <P> Fy, Fa and fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman </P>

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