Concrete Poetry
Alice thinks the Mouse means its tail, which makes her imagine the poem in its twisted, tail-like shape, as shown on the right:
| “ | It is a long tail, certainly, ...but why do you call it sad?" And she kept on puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was something like this:— | ” |
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