Jabberwocky

This term A2 is learning a poem called Jabberwocky. It is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll. This is how it goes:

'twas brillig and the slithey toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe
All mimsy were the borogroves and the mome raths outgrabe.

Beware the jabberwock my son
the jaws that bite the claws that catch
beware the jubjub bird and shun the frumious bandersnatch

He took his vorpal sword in hand long time the manxome foe he sought
so rested he by the tumtum tree,
and stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,
the jabberwock,with eyes of
flame,
came whiffling through the tulgey
wood,and burbled as it came!

One,two!one,two!and through and through
the vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
he left it dead,and with its head
he went gulumphing back.

"And,has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms,my beamish boy! O frabjous day!callooh!callay!'

He chortled in his joy.

twas brillig and the slithy toves
did gyer and gimble the wabe;
all mimsy were the borogroves,
and the mome raths outgrabe.

Jabberwocky is a poem of nonsence verse written by Lewis Carrol
Here are what some of the words mean

bandersnatch-a swift moving creature with snapping jaws and it is capable of extending its neck.

beamish-radiantley beaming,happy.
chortled-a combination of chuckle and snort.
frabjous-possibly a blend of fair,fabulous and joyous
gulumphing-perhaps a blend of galloping and triumphant
jubjub bird-a desperate bird that lives in perpetual pashon according to the butcher in lewis's latter poem the hunting of the snark.
tulgey-thick,dense,dark.
uffish- a state of mind when the voice is gruffish the manner is rouphish and the temper gruffish.
brillig-4 oclock in the afternoon.
slithy-lith and slimy.
toves-badger like cork screw lizard.
gyre-to go round and round.
gimble-to make a hole that looks like its been mad by a gimlet
wabe-a long way before it behind it and beyond it
mimsy-flimsy and misrible
borogroves-thin shabby looking bird with feathers sticking out
mome-from home lost there way home
raths-green pig
outgrabe- bellowing,whistling with a kinda sneeze in the middle