Problem statement: Meter and rhythm in children’s poems have caused severe debates among researchers, as these multiple perceptions affect contemporary children’s poems.
Research objective: : Investigating the rhythmic aspects of children’s poems and the factors that have caused different opinions on children’s poems. Some children’s poems are prosodic, and others are syllabic.
Research method: This research applied a quantitative-qualitative, descriptive-analytical method using library resources; in the first step, it deals with the reasons for the different views and the upcoming challenges. The second step is to study the conventional rhythmic models. It specifies children’s poems. The experimental phase of the research examined 300 children’s poems by contemporary and written children’s poems.
Conclusion: Different opinions on children’s poems and nursery rhymes are rooted in the following issues:
1) Poems’ statistical community includes diverse types of poems that do not follow the same rule.
2) Researchers have ignored spoken language and noticeable differences in long and short syllables.
3) Some have not considered the difference between practical and theoretical values, i.e., the difference between the speakers’ reading and the expected values in the theories.