This is the most frabjous poem on this frumious site.

[CrabHelmet]

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

All mimsy were the borogoves,

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 galumphing back.

 

"And hast 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 gyre and gimble in the wabe;

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

[-Griffin]

Crab wins the poetry comp, obviously.

 

There's a vid of one of my favourite band's lead singers reading this somewhere on Youtube, he does it really well.

 

The best bit is just how awesome some of the language is, were these words archaic or just made up on the spot?

[Pikachu]

Oh god, not this poem again.

 

We had to guess the meanings of the words in English class. >_<

[Frunk]

I'm giving this poem a big healthy tick!

 

[Pikachu]

I'm giving this poem a big healthy tick!

 

 

I swear, I swear that's a mutated grape.

[speck]

Redunculous!

[Niño]

C.H wins the comp.

[Womi]

I'm Crab Helmet and I rate your poem:

 

 

 

It was good.

[Kyosuke Kiryu]

Jabberwocky FTW!

 

I've never understood any of it.

[Dark]

I didn't know what a fourth of those words meant. :/

 

Overall, it was good.

[Juuzou]

and the mome raths outgrabe...

[~/Coolio Prime\~]

Horrible, the work of an absolute amateur.

[Juuzou]

srsly. no matter where i go i get judgd like that

 

You don't dis Lewis Carol, bish. D:<

[Great Unclean One: VK]

This is good...

 

If only I could understand it....

['tyleR]

I didn't know what a fourth of those words meant. :/

 

Overall' date=' it was good.

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It's not his poem. :/ It's Jabberwocky, an old gibberish poem. It's not even supposed to have real meaning.

[Mrs. SHINee <3]

OMG thats poetry to my ears, thats the knife to my hand holdiong while repeatedly stabbing Justin Bieber, thats my Shakespere and i loved it

[Infinitus]

What fads go around, come around.

 

The poem fad is back, and I was going to make either a poem about a frozen flame or a Joshua Tree.

 

Unfortunately, my idea was pwnt without being posted.

[Eury]

Would have been a lot better if I knew what half the words meant. D:

[Juuzou]

Would have been a lot better if I knew what half the words meant. D:

 

Bandersnatch — A swift moving creature with snapping jaws' date=' capable of extending its neck.

Beamish — Radiantly beaming, happy, cheerful. Although Carroll may have thought he had coined this word, it is attested from 1530.

Borogove — A thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round, "something like a live mop". The initial syllable of borogove is pronounced as in borrow rather than as in worry.

Brillig — Four o'clock in the afternoon: the time when you begin broiling things for dinner.

Burbled — Possibly a mixture of "bleat", "murmur", and "warble".[8'] Burble is also a pre-existing word, circa 1303, meaning to form bubbles as in boiling water. The Dutch word broebelen still retains this meaning of bubbling boiling water.

Chortled — Combination of chuckle and snort.

Frabjous — Possibly a blend of fair, fabulous, and joyous.

Frumious — Combination of "fuming" and "furious".

Galumphing — Perhaps a blend of "gallop" and "triumphant". Used to describe a way of "trotting" down hill, while keeping one foot further back than the other. This enables the Galumpher to stop quickly.

Gimble — To make holes as does a gimlet.

Gyre — To go round and round like a gyroscope. However, Carroll also wrote in Mischmasch that it meant to scratch like a dog. The g is pronounced like the /g/ in gold, not like gem.

Jubjub — A desperate bird that lives in perpetual passion, according to the Butcher in Carroll's later poem The Hunting of the Snark.

Manxome — Fearsome. A portmanteau of "manly" and "buxom", the latter relating to men for most of its history.

Mimsy — Combination of "miserable" and "flimsy".

Mome — Possibly short for "from home," meaning that the raths had lost their way.

Outgrabe (past tense; present tense outgribe) — Something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle.

Rath — A sort of green pig.

Snicker-snack — An onomatopoeia of unclear meaning, possibly referring to sharpness.

Slithy — Combination of "slimy" and "lithe." The i is long, as in writhe.

Tove — A combination of a badger, a lizard, and a corkscrew. They are very curious looking creatures which make their nests under sundials and eat only cheese. Pronounced so as to rhyme with groves. Note that "gyre and gimble," i.e. rotate and bore, is in reference to the toves being partly corkscrew by Humpty Dumpty's definitions.

Tulgey — Thick, dense, dark.

Uffish — A state of mind when the voice is gruffish, the manner roughish, and the temper huffish.

Vorpal — See vorpal sword.

Wabe' — The grass plot around a sundial. It is called a "wabe" because it goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it, and a long way beyond it on each side.

[Frunk]

^ Way to copy from Wikipedia. The only way I can "see Vorpal Sword" is by going there, as the link does on the page.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky