It's such a little thing to weep

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



It's such a little thing to weep—
So short a thing to sigh—
And yet—by Trades—the size of these
We men and women die!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 28, 2023

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104

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Scheme ABCB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 130
Words 26
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4

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