The nursery rhyme was intended to make people remember why treason was wrong and that the punishment was severe (government hung Fawkes, and he was then drawn & quartered).
Much like the same cinematic example in Braveheart and William Wallace, “it did not have the affect they had hoped.”
My preferred version…
The more statist oriented version…
And on the personal side, my brother and his wife had their first born child and son born on the 5th of November (happy birthday to my Nephew!). As fellow freedom fighters and lovers of liberty…it is quite possible they both planned their conception activities to align to this date!