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
Through the Looking-Glass version of "The Walrus and the Carpenter". The 1951 animated Disney movie "Alice in Wonderland" also features several elements from "Through the Looking-Glass", including the talking flowers, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and "The Walrus and the Carpenter". Another adaptation, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", produced by "Joseph Shaftel Productions" in 1972 with Fiona Fullerton as Alice, included the twins Fred and Frank Cox as Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The 2010 film "Alice in Wonderland" by Tim Burton contains elements of both "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass". The 1974 Italian TV series Nel Mondo Di Alice (In the World of Alice)