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JOSIE'S POEMS
Shadowing Poems
ie Parody
By Josie Whitehead
PARODY: noun: an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. Verb: produce a humourously exaggerated imitation of (a writer, artist, or genre)
Lewis Carroll, in his poem "Jabberwocky" showed us what fun you can have making up words in a rhyming poem. Have you tried a paradody on "Jabberwocky"? I hope, by my own, I can give you a nudge into trying one yourself. I have followed the metre in that famous poem. What fun! Josie
BRAVE, BRAVE SLEDDERCLOB
(A 'shadow poem'/parody of
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll)
By Josie Whitehead
‘Twas terrible, the barby greaves
Did pyre and slimber on the dume.
All groppy were the burraflees
And the flurid blanes were troom.
Beware the Frohtuck, please beware!
The toothless flob, the sightless frab.
Beware the carracarrabat,
And tear fast from the clumbling prab.
Sledderclob grabbed his trusty sword
And driddled through the Mory Fran,
Then crossed the Mixel Netherford
And rested gently on the cran.
Then, with a privel glint of hand,
The Frohtuck came with hair betract,
But, pruffing o’er the preevy sand,
His fliching sneezum cracked.
Left right and centre, down and through,
Sledderclob advanced with spreed.
He drubbed the Frohtuck by his proo
And did the fatal deed.
The Frohtuck lay with brickling prown
Upon the clubey dranit sand,
Whilst fluvered Sledderclob looked down,
His sword still in his hand.
‘Twas terrible the barby greaves
Did pyre and slimber on the dume.
All groppy were the burraflees
And the flurid blanes were troom.
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I hope you like this poem. It was great fun to write, especially making up so many words. Your children might like to draw up a list of their own words for the Frohtuck. Josie