Skipping Rope by Agniya Barto. Short summary

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A poem about a children’s game of rope. It was usually only played by girls. It was fashionable in the forties of the last century.

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In Soviet times, girls in all the yards played rope. In all yards they jumped over the rope in different ways: on one leg and on both legs at once. The poem is about how a girl loved to play this game very much. She practiced at home and in the yard, so that the neighbors from downstairs sprinkled lime.