Strophe

 1   1|                     Chapter 1 - Marley's Ghost~
 2   1|                             I~ ~Marley was dead: to begin with.
 3   1|         to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. ~
 4   1|      repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail. ~
 5   1|        bargain. ~The mention of Marley's funeral brings me back
 6   1|          There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly
 7   1|   Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name. There it stood,
 8   1|    ware-house door: Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known as Scrooge
 9   1|        was known as Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to
10   1|  Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both
11   1|     bowed to him. ~"Scrooge and Marley's, I believe,'' said one
12   1|    addressing Mr Scrooge, or Mr Marley?'' ~"Mr Marley has been
13   1|   Scrooge, or Mr Marley?'' ~"Mr Marley has been dead these seven
14   1|         bestowed one thought on Marley, since his last mention
15   1|      change: not a knocker, but Marley's face. ~Marley's face.
16   1|    knocker, but Marley's face. ~Marley's face. It was not in impenetrable
17   1|        but looked at Scrooge as Marley used to look: with ghostly
18   1|     terrified with the sight of Marley's pigtail sticking out into
19   1|  thoughts; and yet that face of Marley, seven years dead, came
20   1|         have been a copy of old Marley's head on every one. ~"Humbug!''
21   1|   though it cried, "I know him! Marley's Ghost!'' and fell again. ~
22   1|       same face: the very same. Marley in his pigtail, usual waistcoat,
23   1|        often heard it said that Marley had no bowels, but he had
24   1|         with me?'' ~"Much!'' -- Marley's voice, no doubt about
25   1|         was your partner, Jacob Marley.'' ~"Can you -- can you
26   1|         imploringly. "Old Jacob Marley, tell me more. Speak comfort
27   1|        two paces of each other, Marley's Ghost held up its hand,
28   1|        of them wore chains like Marley's Ghost; some few (they
29   2|      think, the more he thought Marley's Ghost bothered him exceedingly.
30   3| despatched to him through Jacob Marley's intervention. But, finding
31   3|     known in Scrooge's time, or Marley's, or for many and many
32   3|         spade that buried Jacob Marley. ~But they didn't devote
33   3|         prediction of old Jacob Marley, and lifting up his eyes,
34   5|      strive within me. Oh Jacob Marley! Heaven, and the Christmas
35   5|        which the Ghost of Jacob Marley entered! There's the corner
36   5|          and said, "Scrooge and Marley's, I believe?'' It sent