Analysis of HOW many of the body's health complain,

Jones Very 1813 (Salem) – 1880



HOW many of the body's health complain,
When they some deeper malady conceal;
Some unrest of the souled, some secret pain,
Which thus its presence doth to them reveal.
Vain would we seek, by the physician's aid,
A name for this soul-sickness e'er to find;
A remedy for health and strength decayed,
Whose cause and cure are wholly of the mind
To higher nature is the soul allied,
And restless seeks its being's Source to know;
Finding not health nor strength in aught beside;
How often vainly sought in things below,
Whether in sunny clime, or sacred stream,
Or plant of wondrous powers of which we dream!


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Poetic Form Shakespearean sonnet 
Metre 1101010101 1111010001 1011011101 1111011101 1111100101 01111101011 0100110101 1101110101 1101010101 0101110111 1011110101 1101010101 1001011101 11110101111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 612
Words 109
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 477
Words per stanza (avg) 107
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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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