The poems either parody well known fairy tales (Dick Whittington and His Cat, The Tortoise and the Hare, The Emperor's New Clothes, Ali Baba, Hansel and Gretel, Aladdin) nursery rhymes (As I was going to St Ives, Hey Diddle Diddle, Mary, Mary Quite Contrary) or are little stories thought up by Dahl himself.
Semur (Indonesian stew) | Stew | Stew (musician) | Simple Simon (nursery rhyme) | Rhyme & Reason | Rhyme Pays | Rhyme Asylum | Baa, Baa, Black Sheep (nursery rhyme) | Twice Upon a Rhyme | The Eagle pub on the City Road, mentioned in the Nursery rhyme ''Pop Goes the Weasel | Take a Bite Outta Rhyme: A Rock Tribute to Rap | Take A Bite Outta Rhyme | Stew Albert | stew | Solitary Confinement (Rhyme Asylum album) | Section from a 19th-century engraving by Nathaniel Whittock from a drawing by Antony van den Wyngaerde (ca 1543-50), which shows the towers and spires of many of the churches mentioned in the rhyme ''Oranges and Lemons | Rhyme Book | Rhyme and Reason | Optimus Rhyme | Onions in the Stew | Mulligan's Stew | Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme | Irish Stew of Sindidun | Heavy Rhyme Experience, Vol. 1 | Ethnic Stew and Brew | Computer Stew |