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
The News at Bedtime with a special "Year in Review" episode broadcast on 31 December 2010. "The News at Bedtime" is a news programme broadcast from the magical world of Nurseryland, in which nursery rhymes and children's stories are real. The main news readers are John Tweedledum and Jim Tweedledee, who both make it clear that they dislike each other. Tweedledum sees himself as more professional, compared to Tweedledee who likes celebrity culture. Whenever Tweedledum gets annoyed by Tweedledee (or vice versa), he hits him with a toy rattle. The other main contributors to the programme are Mary Mary, the Contrary Correspondent who reports