It doesn't say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg anywhere in the actual rhyme. According to Wikipedia, the rhyme started out as a riddle, and people were supposed to guess why he couldn't be put back together again.See the link for more information.
I believe it comes from the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty who fell off the wall - 'all the kings horse's and all the kings men" However nowhere in the nursery rhyme is their any reference to Humpty Dumpty being an egg!
This song is known as Humpty Dumpty. It starts out, "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall." It is a very well known children's nursery rhyme.
In the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle," the cow jumped over the moon, which personifies the animal by ascribing human-like actions to it. Another example can be found in "Humpty Dumpty," where the egg is portrayed as sitting on a wall and having a great fall, despite eggs not having the physical ability to do so in reality.
An egg has to be broken to be used for cooking or baking.
An egg cannot be used unless broken open.
Easy and easel rhyme. Egg and ego rhyme. Elect and electric rhyme.
Humpty Dumpty is a fictional character from a nursery rhyme. The rhyme does not provide much context or detail about the situation, so it is difficult to determine if he deserved his fate or not.
The phrase "putting Humpty Dumpty back together again" means that once something is broken or damaged beyond repair, it cannot be fully restored. In the nursery rhyme, Humpty Dumpty is depicted as an egg, and an egg that has cracked open cannot be pieced back together.
An egg
Humpty Dumpty is typically depicted as a humanlike egg in nursery rhymes and children's literature.
No peg does not rhyme with pen but egg does..