Analysis of Who Hath Ears To Hear Let Him Hear

Jones Very 1813 (Salem) – 1880



The sun doth not the hidden place reveal,
Whence pours at morn his golden flood of light;
But what the night's dark breast would fain conceal,
In its true colors walks before our sight;
The bird does not betray the secret springs,
Whence note on note her music sweetly pours;
Yet turns the ear attentive while she sings,
The willing heart while falls the strain adores;
So shall the spirit tell not whence its birth,
But in its light thine untold deeds lay bare;
And while it walks with thee flesh-clothed the earth,
Its words shall of the Father's love declare;
And happy those whose ears shall hail its voice,
And clean within the day it gives rejoice.


Scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG
Poetic Form Shakespearean sonnet 
Metre 0111010101 1111110111 1101111101 01110101101 0111010101 1111010101 1101010111 0101110101 1101011111 1011101111 0111111101 1111010101 0101111111 0101011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 649
Words 120
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 520
Words per stanza (avg) 118
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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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