<P> A third verse, sometimes added to the rhyme, was first recorded in a 19th - century chapbook and took </P> <P> Twentieth - century versions of this verse include: </P> <P> When Jill came in How she did grin To see Jack's paper plaster; Mother vexed Did whip her next For causing Jack's disaster . </P> <P> As presented above and as presented in the accompanying published images, the rhyme is made up of six - line stanzas with a rhyming scheme of aabccb and a trochaic rhythm (with the stress falling on the first of a pair of syllables). Alternatively, if these stanzas were viewed as quatrains with internal rhymes, this would be an example of ballad form, a common form for nursery rhymes . The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs (1870). The Roud Folk Song Index, which catalogues folk songs and their variations by number, classifies the song as 10266 . </P>

When jack fell down what did he break