paa-son's

Updated: May 10, 2025

To rightly understand this rhyme you must sing it with long-drawn emphasis on each word, lengthening it into at least two syllables; the first a sort of hexameter, the second a pentameter of sound: Fey-ther sto-ole th' Paa-son's sheep.

Richard Jefferies - Field and Hedgerow : Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies