Analysis of After great pain, a formal feeling comes -- (341)
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
After great pain, a formal feeling comes --
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs
The stiff Heart questions, was it He, that bore,
And Yesterday, or Centuries before?
The Feet, mechanical, go round --
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought --
A Wooden way
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone --
This is the Hour of Lead --
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow --
First -- Chill -- then Stupor -- then the letting go --
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010101 011111 0111011111 010110001 01010011 111111 0101 0101 01010101 1101011 01011 110100101 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 449 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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