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    The poem describes a funeral taking place in the speaker's brain. Mourners tread back and forth until the speaker's senses start to break through. A drum-like service is heard beating until the speaker's mind goes numb. A box is lifted and creaks across the speaker's soul with heavy boots. Space begins to toll like a bell. Reason breaks, and the speaker drops down, hitting a new world with every plunge until finished knowing.

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    The poem describes a funeral taking place in the speaker's brain. Mourners tread back and forth until the speaker's senses start to break through. A drum-like service is heard beating until the speaker's mind goes numb. A box is lifted and creaks across the speaker's soul with heavy boots. Space begins to toll like a bell. Reason breaks, and the speaker drops down, hitting a new world with every plunge until finished knowing.

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    I felt a Funeral in my Brain

    Emily Dickinson

    1 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,


    2 And Mourners to and fro
    3 Kept treading - treading - till it seemed
    4 That Sense was breaking through -

    5 And when they all were seated,


    6 A Service, like a Drum -
    7 Kept beating - beating - till I thought
    8 My mind was going numb -

    9 And then I heard them lift a Box


    10 And creak across my Soul
    11 With those same Boots of Lead, again,
    12 Then Space - began to toll,

    13 As all the Heavens were a Bell,


    14 And Being, but an Ear,
    15 And I, and Silence, some strange Race,
    16 Wrecked, solitary, here -

    17 And then a Plank in Reason, broke,


    18 And I dropped down, and down -
    19 And hit a World, at every plunge,
    20 And Finished knowing - then -

    Rhyme Scheme: ABCB


    Quatrain

    LEGEND;
    Adiojgf = Metaphor
    Adiojgf = Simile
    Adiojgf = Repetition
    Adiojgf = Anaphora
    Adiojgf = Caesura
    Adiojgf = Allegory
    ______ = Alliteration
    Adiojgf = Elision
    PROPS:

    I felt a Funeral in my Brain


    Emily Dickinson

    1 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,


    2 And Mourners to and fro
    3 Kept treading - treading - till it seemed
    4 That Sense was breaking through -

    5 And when they all were seated,


    6 A Service, like a Drum -
    7 Kept beating - beating - till I thought
    8 My mind was going numb -

    9 And then I heard them lift a Box


    10 And creak across my Soul
    11 With those same Boots of Lead, again,
    12 Then Space - began to toll,

    13 As all the Heavens were a Bell,


    14 And Being, but an Ear,
    15 And I, and Silence, some strange Race,
    16 Wrecked, solitary, here -

    17 And then a Plank in Reason, broke,


    18 And I dropped down, and down -
    19 And hit a World, at every plunge,
    20 And Finished knowing - then -

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