Remember Remember

Remember, remember,
The fifth of November,
Gunpowder treason and plot.
I know of no reason
The gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.

Honestly, this has to be one of the worst nursery rhymes in recorded history. To start with the meter is off. Every line has 6 syllables, except for the third, which has 7. I mean, it's not a huge deal, and you won't notice unless you count. But seriously.

But more to the point, what kind of an argument for remembrance is that? "I can't think of a reason not to, therefore we must remember." In fact it's not even saying, "there's no reason not to remember". The poem's author is actually saying, "I can't think of a reason to actively attempt to forget the gunpowder treason, therefore we must remember it." That's not a good argument.
I could rewrite the poem to go
Remember, remember
The fifth of November
Gunpowder treason and plot.
There's really no reason
To think of the treason.
But what the hell, why not?
and it would be a stronger argument than the poem in it's original form (and also follow the same meter and rhyme scheme).

This silly semantic point aside, it's also just completely content free. It basically just name drops the Gunpowder Treason in the hopes that the audience will already be familiar with it. If your audience is already familiar enough with the event that simply naming it will remind them of it, and it's significance, then they probably don't need a poem reminding them of it. They already remember it.
This has been a pretty pointless post. But really that poem just annoys me.
And in a few days I'll be hearing it everywhere.