I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (340)
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading - treading - till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through -
And when they all were seated,
A Service, like a Drum -
Kept beating - beating - till I thought
My mind was going numb -
And then I heard them lift a Box
And creak across my Soul
With those same Boots of Lead, again,
Then Space - began to toll,
As all the Heavens were a Bell,
And Being, but an Ear,
And I, and Silence, some strange Race,
Wrecked, solitary, here -
And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down -
And hit a World, at every plunge,
And Finished knowing - then -
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Submitted by hakikur on August 22, 2021
Modified on May 03, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXXX XAXA XBCB XDXD XXXC |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 606 |
Words | 128 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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