Analysis of To The Pure All Things Are Pure

Jones Very 1813 (Salem) – 1880



The flowers I pass have eyes that look at me,
The birds have ears that hear my spirit's voice,
And I am glad the leaping brook to see,
Because it does at my light step rejoice.
Come, brothers, all who tread the grassy hill,
Or wander thoughtless o'er the blooming fields,
Come learn the sweet obedience of the will;
Thence every sight and sound new pleasure yields.
Nature shall seem another house of thine,
When he who formed thee, bids it live and play,
And in thy rambles e'en the creeping vine
Shall keep with thee a jocund holiday,
And every plant, and bird, and insect, be
Thine own companions born for harmony.


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Poetic Form
Metre 01011111111 0111111101 0111010111 0111111101 1101110101 11010100101 11010100101 11001011101 1011010111 1111111101 0011110101 11110110 0100101011 1101011100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 612
Words 115
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 484
Words per stanza (avg) 113
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 22, 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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