He said that it was brillig, but what did that word mean And slithy is a word that I had never seen If you gyre and gimble, what do you really do I guess when in the wabe, you seek the meaning too.
Lewis was a master of words that were not real He made you fear the Jubjub, and he made you feel Like your very being, is a door without a latch It takes bravery to shun the frumious bandersnatch.
We attack the world of words with a vorpal sword in hand Verses, like the Tumtum tree, sprouting in the sand And structure with rhyming can be a manxome foe Whiffling and burbling, the flaming words will go.
Choosing careful phrases can bring a frabjous day And poems not dead, like borogoves, find their mimsy way While galumphing through the tulgey lines with uffish chortled joy It makes me through and through a whiffling beamish boy
So Lewis paints a picture with unreal words so clear The Jabberwock seems so real and something we should fear Poetry is the art of words, with phrasing, tales and fun Proceed carefully, and beware the Jabberwock my son.