Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

~Onomatopoeia (Stanza 5 Line 2 “The vorpal blade went snicker-snack”)
~Mood (Stanza 2 all 4 lines really give an ominous feeling to the reader.)
~Climax (Stanza 5 the story reaches its peak when the dreaded Jabberwock is killed!)
~Imagery (Stanza 4 Line 2 “with eyes of flame”)
~Tone (Stanza 6 Line 3 “Callooh! Callay!” you can really feel the excitement that the narrator has at the death of the Jabberwock)
~Diction (found throughout Carroll’s creation of new words by combining two or more words makes the poem original and adds the opportunity for extra description without making this poem any longer)