An Arctic Hare.

Oliver Herford 1863 (Sheffield) – 1935



AN Arc-tic Hare we now be-hold.
The hair, you will ob-serve, is white;
But if you think the Hare is old,
You will be ver-y far from right.
The Hare is young, and yet the hair
Grew white in but a sin-gle night.
Why, then it must have been a scare
That turned this Hare. No; 't was not fright
(Al-though such cases are well known);
I fear that once a-gain you're wrong.
Know then, that in the Arc-tic Zone
A sin-gle night is six months long.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABABCBCBDEDE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 428
Words 87
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12

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