Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
All mimsy were the borogoves
And the mome raths outgrabe
Interpretation:
Twas brillig and the slithy toves
It was four o clock in the afternoon, and the lithe and slimy badger corkscrew lizards
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
Were whirling round and round near the sundial.
All mimsy were the borogoves
The shabby birds were all flimsy and miserable
And the mome raths outgrabe
And the lost green pigs were making a lot of noise
(What I did/how I got it)Paragraph: What I did was interpreted the following lines of the nonsense poem that’s up above. The first line says Twas brillig and the slithy toves. What I did was looked all the words up and there meaning and also determine were they a noun, adjective, or adverb. Twas means it was and it’s also an old contraction so that started the first verse. The word brillig means at four o clock in the afternoon. With the word brillig I looked it up and seen on many sites that it said at four o clock in the afternoon but before I put my answer I thought about was it a noun, verb, or adjective and brillig is an adjective. I also looked too see did it sound right apart of the sentence which it did. The next part is the slithy toves. The word slithy means slimy/lithe .It is an adjective and it would make sense that is describing the unknown creature. Afterwards I looked up what the word toves was. Toves are badger corkscrew lizards. So that’s telling me that it is a creature and that it’s also a lizard like creature. So I put that at the end of the sentence and I came up with it was four o clock in the afternoon, and the lithe and slimy badger corkscrew lizards. The next line says did gyre and gimble in the wabe. Which means were whirling round and round near the sundial. The word gyre means to move around in a kind of circle. The word gyre is a noun and gimble sounds a little bit like nimble but it’s a verb in the verse. The wabe is the