Bound -- a trouble

Read 'Bound -- a trouble' by 'Emily Dickinson' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.

Bound -- a trouble by Emily Dickinson

 Bound -- a trouble --
And lives can bear it!
Limit -- how deep a bleeding go!
So -- many -- drops -- of vital scarlet --
Deal with the soul
As with Algebra!

Tell it the Ages -- to a cypher --
And it will ache -- contented -- on --
Sing -- at its pain -- as any Workman --
Notching the fall of the Even Sun!

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