The Poetry of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

A lot of the poetry in Alice in Wonderland and By means of the Seeking Glass is in truth parodies of a variety of rhymes.

'Twinkle Twinkle Tiny Bat' is the ideal identified, getting a new version of 'Twinkle Twinkle Small Star'.

'You are old, Father William' is 'An old man's comforts and how they gained them.'

'How doth the busy bee' is a parody of 'How doth the Small crocodile'

'Tis the voice of the Lobster' is a parody of 'Tis the voice of the Sluggard'.

'The Lobster Quadrille' is a parody of 'The Spider and the Fly'.

'Speak roughly to your Small boy' is a parody of 'Speak gently'.

The lovely 'Soup of the Evening' is a version of 'Star of the Evening'.

In Searching Glass 'Haddocks Eyes' is a version of 'Resolution and Independence.'

'To the Searching Glass world' is a version of 'Bonnie Dundee'.

There are also altered nursery rhymes in the books in Alice in Wonderland there is 'Queen of Hearts'. In Via the Searching Glass there is 'Humpty Dumpty', 'The Lion and the Unicorn' and 'Tweedledum and Tweedledee'.

All the other songs are original-In Alice in Wonderland there is 'All in the golden afternoon' and 'The Mouse Tale' and 'They told me you had been to her'. Via the Seeking Glass there is 'Jabberwocky' and 'The Walrus and the Carpenter' and 'Boat beneath the sunny skies'.

There are of course other operates by Lewis Carroll that are verse such as 'The Searching of the Snark' and Phantamasgora.

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