[
  {
    "title": "The Height of the Ridiculous",
    "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes",
    "lines": [
      "I WROTE some lines once on a time",
      "In wondrous merry mood,",
      "And thought, as usual, men would say",
      "They were exceeding good.",
      "",
      "They were so queer, so very queer,",
      "I laughed as I would die;",
      "Albeit, in the general way,",
      "A sober man am I.",
      "",
      "I called my servant, and he came;",
      "How kind it was of him",
      "To mind a slender man like me,",
      "He of the mighty limb.",
      "",
      "\"These to the printer,\" I exclaimed,",
      "And, in my humorous way,",
      "I added, (as a trifling jest,)",
      "\"There'll be the devil to pay.\"",
      "",
      "He took the paper, and I watched,",
      "And saw him peep within;",
      "At the first line he read, his face",
      "Was all upon the grin.",
      "",
      "He read the next; the grin grew broad,",
      "And shot from ear to ear;",
      "He read the third; a chuckling noise",
      "I now began to hear.",
      "",
      "The fourth; he broke into a roar;",
      "The fifth; his waistband split;",
      "The sixth; he burst five buttons off,",
      "And tumbled in a fit.",
      "",
      "Ten days and nights, with sleepless eye,",
      "I watched that wretched man,",
      "And since, I never dare to write",
      "As funny as I can."
    ],
    "linecount": "32"
  }
]