Zurs posted one of her favourite poems and I just happened to make it into layman terms:

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JABBERWOCKY.

`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 has 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

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This poem... mesti in scottish or something... is confusing as:
Id be mair vauntie o my hap,
Douce hingin owre my curple,
Than ony ermine ever lap,
Or proud imperial purple.

So... I dissect poetry clinically now (even if im not very good at it):

Verse 1 and 7:
poet had a cold and decided to transcript everything according to what it sounded like. I think what poet wanted to say was "Here's a filler, cos i really can't think of anything else. But I'm thinking of a foresty place with lots of animaly things sleeping in their animaly houses and stuff... Cake anyone?"

Verse 2:
Poet says "There are 3 things in the foresty place you must beware. Anything with teeth, claws and... women..."

Verse 3:
Poet spun "Then one day this dude up and decides to go kill the foresty evils and get fame and fortune and girls so he goes to the foresty place and looks for the thing with teeth and nails. But he couldn't find any and then sat down to lepak under a tree. and she he thought."

Verse 4:
Poet muttered incoherently "Then dude hears something vile and quickly went to arms when immidiately came threw the thing with teeth and nails. It was clearly rather pissed off. It also looked like a dragon. It was also loudly going 'BLARGHLARGHLARGHLARGH' like that was going to make the dude piss his pants"

Verse 5:
Poet decided "Dude shall pick up his pointy things and hack and slash til thing with teeth and nails dies. And die it did. Dude picked up the head as a sort of trophy (you know how people like to mount the heads of the beasties they slay) and went home triumphant"

Verse 6:
Poet ended "Yay... yay... you killed it. Now the vegetarian forest animal will overrun the forest and we'll have racoons in our rubbishbins in no time. But you killed it... yay... yay,"

I say:
There would be a few things poet would be trying to say and they are...
-poet is high and coming up with silly words like those of DR. Suess is sooooooo easy
-It's about a knight and a dragon-pest-thing
-poet had a stuffy shoddy nose.
-you could have a lot of fun trying to figure the poem out and according to wiki and Mr. Carroll, this is NOT how you write a poem. No making shit up

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So you could tell I had a bit of fun there. If I were having more fun I'd turn it into actual coherent poetry verses. I think I'll save that for later.