Strophe

 1   1|           asked him what it was o'clock, no man or woman ever once
 2   2|          when he went to bed. The clock was wrong. An icicle must
 3   2|    correct this most preposterous clock. Its rapid little pulse
 4   2|     unconsciously, and missed the clock. At length it broke upon
 5   2|         pen, and looked up at the clock, which pointed to the hour
 6   2|      without a stagger. ~When the clock struck eleven, this domestic
 7   3|         streamed upon it when the clock proclaimed the hour; and
 8   4| accustomed corner, and though the clock pointed to his usual time
 9   4|        the window; glanced at the clock; tried, but in vain, to
10   5|           did it; yes he did! The clock struck nine. No Bob. A quarter
11   5|         trying to overtake nine o'clock. ~"Hallo!'' growled Scrooge,