Analysis of The Trees Of Life

Jones Very 1813 (Salem) – 1880



For those who worship Thee there is no death,
For all they do is but with Thee to dwell;
Now while I take from Thee this passing breath,
It is but of thy glorious name to tell;
Nor words nor measured sounds have I to find,
But in them both my soul doth ever flow;
They come as viewless as the unseen wind,
And tell thy noiseless steps where'er I go;
The trees that grow along thy living stream,
And from its springs refreshment ever drink,
Forever glittering in thy morning beam
They bend them o'er the river's grassy brink
And as more high and wide their branches grow
They look more fair within the depths below.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111011111 1111111111 1111111101 11111100111 1111011111 1011111101 111110011 011111011 0111011101 0111010101 01010001101 11110010101 0111011101 1111010101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 609
Words 119
Sentences 2
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) 117
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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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