Jabberwocky (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- First Published: 1871
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Light verse
The Poem
“Jabberwocky,” possibly the most famous of all nonsense poems, consists of seven stanzas, each of four lines, each line having eight syllables. The orthodox form and the fixed rhythm provide a framework whose rigidity further emphasizes the nonsensical quality of each individual line. Because the final stanza is an exact repetition of the first, these two units, unrelated in content to the remainder, perform a parenthetical function. The five stanzas thus bracketed contain a consecutive narrative in which a young man, having received a series of warnings, rides...
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