Analysis of The Dead

Jones Very 1813 (Salem) – 1880



I see them crowd on crowd they walk the earth
Dry, leafless trees no Autumn wind laid bare,
And in their nakedness find cause for mirth,
And all unclad would winter's rudeness dare;
No sap doth through their clattering branches flow,
Whence springing leaves and blossoms bright appear;
Their hearts the living God have ceased to know,
Who gives the spring time to th'expectant year;
They mimic life, as if from him to steal
His glow of health to paint the livid cheek;
They borrow words for thoughts they cannot feel,
That with a seeming heart their tongue may speak;
And in their show of life more dead they live
Than those that to the earth with many tears they give.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111111101 1101110111 00111111 011110101 11111100101 1101010101 1101011111 110111110101 1101111111 1111110101 111111101 1101011111 0011111111 111101110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 677
Words 123
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 534
Words per stanza (avg) 121
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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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