Poems and songs[edit] <br />Carroll wrote multiple poems and songs for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, including: <br /> <br />"All in the golden afternoon..."—the prefatory verse, an original poem by Carroll that recalls the rowing expedition on which he first told the story of Alice's adventures underground <br />"Beautiful Soup" also known as "Turtle Soup", sung by the Mock Turtle—a parody of James M. Sayles's song "Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star", which was performed as a trio by Lorina, Alice, and Edith Liddell for Lewis Carroll in the Liddell home during the same summer in which he first told the story of Alice's Adventures Under Ground.[20] <br />"How Doth the Little Crocodile"—a parody of Isaac Watts' nursery rhyme, "Against Idleness and Mischief" <br />"Speak roughly to your little boy..."—the Duchess' lullaby, is a parody of David Bates' "Speak Gently" <br />"The Lobster Quadrille"—a parody of Mary Botham Howitt's "The Spider and the Fly" <br />"The Mouse's Tale"—an example of concrete poetry <br />"The Queen of Hearts"—an actual nursery rhyme <br />"They told me you had been to her..."—the White Rabbit's evidence <br />"'Tis the Voice of the Lobster"—a parody of Isaac Watts' "The Sluggard" <br />"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat"—a parody of Jane Taylor's "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" <br />"You Are Old, Father William"—a parody of Robert Southey's "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them"
