Kriss Kringle
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)
Just as the moon was fading
Amid her misty rings,
And every stocking was stuffed
With childhood’s precious things,
Old Kriss Kringle looked around,
And saw on the elm-tree bough,
High hung, an oriole’s nest,
Lonely and empty now.
“Quite a stocking,” he laughed,
“Hung up there on a tree!
I didn’t suppose the birds
Expected a present from me!”
Then old Kriss Kringle, who loves
A joke as well as the best,
Dropped a handful of snowflakes
Into the oriole’s empty nest.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | XAXA XBCB XDXD XCXC |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 476 |
Words | 87 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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