Strophe

 1   1|        behind it first, as if he half expected to be terrified
 2   1|           This might have lasted half a minute, or a minute, but
 3   2|      counting. ~"Ding, dong!'' ~"Half past!'' said Scrooge. ~"
 4   2|     twenty couple at once; hands half round and back again the
 5   2|       the memory of what is past half makes me hope you will --
 6   3|     choked up with a dingy mist, half thawed, half frozen, whose
 7   3|         dingy mist, half thawed, half frozen, whose heavier particles
 8   3|     poulterers' shops were still half open, and the fruiterers'
 9   3|         That was the pudding. In half a minute Mrs Cratchit entered:
10   3|        hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited
11   3|         called a circle, meaning half a one; and at Bob Cratchit'
12   3|       game,'' said Scrooge. "One half hour, Spirit, only one!'' ~
13   3| wonderful creation, has monsters half so horrible and dread. ~
14   5|      full eighteen minutes and a half, behind his time. Scrooge