After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDD EFGHH IJKK| A | |
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| After great pain a formal feeling comes | B |
| The Nerves sit ceremonious like Tombs | C |
| The stiff Heart questions was it He that bore | D |
| And Yesterday or Centuries before | D |
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| The Feet mechanical go round | E |
| Of Ground or Air or Ought | F |
| A Wooden way | G |
| Regardless grown | H |
| A Quartz contentment like a stone | H |
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| This is the Hour of Lead | I |
| Remembered if outlived | J |
| As Freezing persons recollect the Snow | K |
| First Chill then Stupor then the letting go | K |
Emily Dickinson
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