[
  {
    "title": "I read my sentence steadily",
    "author": "Emily Dickinson",
    "lines": [
      "I read my sentence steadily,",
      "Reviewed it with my eyes,",
      "To see that I made no mistake",
      "In its extremest clause, --",
      "",
      "The date, and manner of the shame;",
      "And then the pious form",
      "That \"God have mercy\" on the soul",
      "The jury voted him.",
      "",
      "I made my soul familiar",
      "With her extremity,",
      "That at the last it should not be",
      "A novel agony,",
      "",
      "But she and Death, acquainted,",
      "Meet tranquilly as friends,",
      "Salute and pass without a hint --",
      "And there the matter ends."
    ],
    "linecount": 16,
    "source": "Project Gutenberg — Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12242)"
  }
]