by Belloc · Cluster: Comic Verse · Childhood · Satire
Abstract
A mock-didactic ABC in comic verse, each letter yoked to an absurd little tale and an ironic ‘Moral’ that parodies the improving alphabet-books for children. Belloc uses the schoolroom form to skewer priggish virtue and pompous instruction, deriving deliberately useless or perverse lessons from bears, cobras, and prehistoric beasts.
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Forms & Genres: Comic Verse Song, Poem Themes & Concepts: Nonsense, Wit, Childhood And Growth, Satire of Society, Exaggeration Motifs: Animals, Childhood, Wordplay Topoi: World Upside Down