The Walrus and the Carpenter for the imagination of children and not the analysis of "mad people". 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, with masculine rhymes throughout. The rhyming and rhythmical scheme used, as well as some archaisms and syntactical turns, are those of the
Tweedledum and Tweedledee (comics) Tweedledum and Tweedledee (comics) Tweedledum and Tweedledee are two fictional characters, a duo of supervillains appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, primarily known as enemies of Batman. Tweedledum and Tweedledee first appeared in "Detective Comics" #74 (April 1943), and were created by Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson and Don Cameron. Dumfree Tweed and Deever Tweed are cousins who resemble each other so closely that they are often mistaken for identical twins. The pair are known as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, both as a play on words on their real names, and because they closely resemble Sir John Tenniel's depictions