What is the connection between Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and William Blakes The Tyger?
Most of the lines in The Tyger are heptasyllabic (some are octosyllabic). All of the lines in Twinkle, Twinkle are heptasyllabic. And as they share the same metre, The Tyger can be pretty much sung to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle. Whether there’s some other connection, I don’t know. (A little fact while I’m here and on a similar theme – nearly all of Emily Dickinson’s poems – and I mean 99% or so – can be sung to the tune of The Yellow Rose of Texas…
