Analysis of The Violet

Jones Very 1813 (Salem) – 1880



Thou tellest truths unspoken yet by man
By this thy lonely home and modest look;
For he has not the eyes such truths to scan,
Nor learns to read from such a lowly book;
With him it is not life firm-fixed to grow
Beneath the outspreading oaks and rising pines,
Content this humble lot of thine to know,
The nearest neighbor of the creeping vines;
Without fixed root he cannot trust like thee
The rain will know the appointed hour to fall,
But fears lest sun or shower may hurtful be,
And would delay or speed them with his call;
Nor trust like thee when wintry winds blow cold,
Whose shrinking form the withered leaves enfold.


Scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG
Poetic Form Shakespearean sonnet  (93%)
Metre 111010111 1111010101 1111011111 1111110101 1111111111 010110101 1011011111 0101010101 0111110111 011100101011 11111101101 0101111111 1111110111 1101010101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 620
Words 118
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 498
Words per stanza (avg) 116
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 23, 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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