Analysis of The Garden

Jones Very 1813 (Salem) – 1880



I saw the spot where our first parents dwelt;
And yet it wore to me no face of change,
For while amid its fields and groves I felt
As if I had not sinned, nor thought it strange;
My eye seemed but a part of every sight,
My ear heard music in each sound that rose,
Each sense forever found a new delight,
Such as the spirit's vision only knows;
Each act some new and ever-varying joy
Did by my Father's love for me prepare;
To dress the spot my ever fresh employ,
And in the glorious whole with Him to share;
No more without the flaming gate to stray,
No more for sin's dark stain the debt of death to pay.


Scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG
Poetic Form Shakespearean sonnet 
Metre 11011101101 0111111111 1101110111 1111111111 11110111001 1111001111 1101010101 1101010101 11110101001 1111011101 1101110101 00010011111 1101010111 111111011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 613
Words 124
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 467
Words per stanza (avg) 122
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Jones Very

Jones Very was an American poet, essayist, clergymen, and mystic associated with the American Transcendentalism movement. more…

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