The article presents the theory of paedeia as a method of the axiology of poems having a distinctly playful character as well as an educational competence. The analysis have led to the conclusion that the majority of paideial speech therapy poems constitute the counting out model, because after a multiple of repetitious trials of a given phenomenon, a permanent retention can take place. We are under the impression that most of such texts constitute sylabotonics (trochaic, iambic, or amphibrach) with a constant pause, feminine paideial rhymes, which take on mnemotechnical properties. Frequent themes presented in such poems are the rules concerning the alphabet, grammar and orthography. They support to memorize abstract knowledge or serve, for example, to practice learning the alphabet, and so they are the easiest to repeat and remember – being “catch words” – and the figures of sound are mostly their essential poetic means. Part of the selected poems by Tuwim, Strzałkowska, Dębski, or Edyk-Psut, have not begun with a thought of practicing the systems of speech but were formed as a linguistic play (grammatical-lexical), in which they serve such exercise spontaneously and not necessarily intentionally. Some of them, however, have a meta-textual or speech therapeutic element because they introduce the notion of exercise, e.g. of the phoneticphonological or grammatical systems, and ways of their realization.
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