Poetry by the Numbers

One life of so much consequence, two were immortal twice, and three weeks passed since I had seen her.

Those statements are all first lines from poems by Emily Dickinson, and each contains a word for a number:  one, two and three.

How often did Dickinson's poems contain names of numbers?  And which number -- or numbers -- appear most often?

I did the research on this so that you don't have to.  : )  The results are below, and there may be a surprise or two.
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I suppose the biggest surprise came in how often Dickinson used the word "one."  I wasn't surprised that "one" was, in fact, the number she used most often, but I was a more than astonished when I typed in the word "one" into the online Emily Dickinson Archive and 1413 entries popped up.  That took a bit of time to whittle down to discover that the number "one" was used in close to 550 poems. 

Sooo...in the charts below, I've presented the information in three ways:  The first chart includes data for poems with the number one; however, since that info dominates the pie chart, the second chart omits the number one.  The third chart also omits Dickinson's second most frequently used number -- the number two.  Click the images to enlarge. 

Here are the results for "Numbers in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson": 

One:  548 poems
Two:  62
Three:  12
Four:  5
Five:  1
Six:  3
Seven:  2
Eight: 0
Nine: 1
Ten:  6

Eleven:  0
Twelve:  2
Thirteen:  0
Fourteen:  0
Fifteen:  0
Sixteen:  0
Seventeen:  0
Eighteen:  1
Nineteen:  0
Twenty:  0

Forty:  1
Fifty:  0

Hundred:  13
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Thousand:  8

More statistics on words used by Dickinson in her poetry is HERE.