[
  {
    "title": "Better -- than Music! For I -- who heard it --",
    "author": "Emily Dickinson",
    "lines": [
      "Better -- than Music!  For I -- who heard it --",
      "I was used -- to the Birds -- before --",
      "This -- was different -- 'Twas Translation --",
      "Of all tunes I knew -- and more --",
      "",
      "'Twasn't contained -- like other stanza --",
      "No one could play it -- the second time --",
      "But the Composer -- perfect Mozart --",
      "Perish with him -- that Keyless Rhyme!",
      "",
      "So -- Children -- told how Brooks in Eden --",
      "Bubbled a better -- Melody --",
      "Quaintly infer -- Eve's great surrender --",
      "Urging the feet -- that would -- not -- fly --",
      "",
      "Children -- matured -- are wiser -- mostly --",
      "Eden -- a legend -- dimly told --",
      "Eve -- and the Anguish -- Grandame's story --",
      "But -- I was telling a tune -- I heard --",
      "",
      "Not such a strain -- the Church -- baptizes --",
      "When the last Saint -- goes up the Aisles --",
      "Not such a stanza splits the silence --",
      "When the Redemption strikes her Bells --",
      "",
      "Let me not spill -- its smallest cadence --",
      "Humming -- for promise -- when alone --",
      "Humming -- until my faint Rehearsal --",
      "Drop into tune -- around the Throne --"
    ],
    "linecount": "24"
  }
]