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Detailed explanation-1: -We could assume Humpty Dumpty is the King, the wall is his reign and fight to preserve power, the fall is his defeat, and ‘All the king’s horses and all the king’s men’ the army that failed to prevail. Another theory is that Humpty is actually a cannon.

Detailed explanation-2: -The answer to the riddle, as stated, is “an egg”, which is why Humpty Dumpty today is nearly always depicted as such.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to the Oxford English Dictionary, in the 17th century, the term “humpty dumpty” referred to a drink of brandy boiled with ale. The riddle probably exploited, for misdirection, the fact that “humpty dumpty” was also eighteenth-century reduplicative slang for a short and clumsy person.

Detailed explanation-4: -All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again. Humpty Dumpty fell on his head. They picked him up and put him to bed. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men-they put Humpty back together again.