After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
After great pain, a formal feeling comes--
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Toombs--
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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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 439 |
Words | 71 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 4 |
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