"This Is the House That Jack Built" is a popular British nursery rhyme, first popularized by Randolph Caldecott. It doesn't tell the story of Jack, who builds a house, but instead shows how the house is indirectly linked to numerous things and people, and through this method tells the story of 'The man all tattered and Torn', and the 'Maiden all forlorn', on top of other smaller storylines.