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The Walrus and the Carpenter
"
The Walrus and the Carpenter
" is a
narrative poem
by
Lewis Carroll
that appeared in his book
Through the Looking-Glass
, published in December 1871. The poem is recited in , by
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
to
Alice
. The poem is composed of 18
stanzas
and contains 108 lines, in an alternation of
iambic trimeters
and
iambic tetrameters
. The
rhyme scheme
is ABCBDB, and
masculine rhymes
appear frequently. The rhyming and rhythmical scheme used, as well as some archaisms and syntactical turns, are those of the traditional English
ballad
.
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