Analysis of The Spirit Land

Jones Very 1813 (Salem) – 1880



Father! thy wonders do not singly stand,
Nor far removed where feet have seldom strayed;
Around us ever lies the enchanted land
In marvels rich to thine own sons displayed;
In finding thee are all things round us found;
In losing thee are all things lost beside;
Ears have we but in vain strange voices sound,
And to our eyes the vision is denied;
We wander in the country far remote,
Mid tombs and ruined piles in death to dwell;
Or on the records of past greatness dote,
And for a buried soul the living sell;
While on our path bewildered falls the night
That ne'er returns us to the fields of light.


Scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG
Poetic Form Shakespearean sonnet 
Metre 1011011101 1101111101 01110100101 0101111101 0101111111 0101111101 1111011101 01101010101 1100010101 1101010111 1100111101 0101010101 11101010101 1101110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 597
Words 115
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 476
Words per stanza (avg) 113
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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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