verse={

1:'the house that Jack built.',

2:'the malt ',

3:'the rat ',

4:'the cat ',

5:'the dog ',

6:'the cow with the crumpled horn ',

7:'the maiden all forlorn ',

8:'the man all tattered and torn ',

9:'the priest all shaven and shorn ',

10:'the rooster that crowed in the morn ',

11:'the farmer sowing his corn ',

12:'the horse and the hound and the horn '

}

prefix={0:'This is ',

1:'that lay in ',

2:'that ate ',

3:'that killed ',

4:'that worried ',

5:'that tossed ',

6:'that milked ',

7:'that kissed ',

8:'that married ',

9:'that woke ',

10:'that kept ',

11:'that belonged to '}

def recite(start_verse, end_verse):

rhyme=[]

if start_verse==end_verse:

song=''

song+=prefix[0]+verse[start_verse]

start_verse-=1

while start_verse>0:

song+= prefix[start_verse]+verse[start_verse]

start_verse-=1

rhyme.append(song)

return rhyme

else:

for i in range(start_verse,end_verse+1):

rhyme.append(recite(i,i)[0])

return rhyme