The Poetry of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

A lot of the poetry in Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass is in fact parodies of various rhymes.

'Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat' is the best known, being a new version of 'Twinkle Twinkle Little 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 little 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 little boy' is a parody of 'Speak gently'.

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

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

'To the Looking 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 Through the Looking 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'. Through the Looking Glass there is 'Jabberwocky' and 'The Walrus and the Carpenter' and 'Boat beneath the sunny skies'.

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

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