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What type of deviation is used in Lewis Carroll's "The Mouse's Tale"?

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Question added by Khaled Belgacem , Teacher of English , Pioneer High School Gafsa
Date Posted: 2015/06/18
Hedi Charfi
by Hedi Charfi , Assistant Professor , Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, University of Sfax

The poem, which is part of Alice's adventures in Wonderland, deviates in terms of its shape as it is in the form of a tail (which links with the story of the mouse explored in the poem). The poem also builds on the pun between "tail" and "tale" as it is a tale (story) about a tail (the mouse). The shape of the poem makes it difficult to detect rhyme, which is another instance of deviation. 

Dr Yasmeen Majeed
by Dr Yasmeen Majeed , Trainer and HOD

The poem is quadruple pun and the rhyme structure is that of tail rhyme.

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