Analysis of The Jew

Jones Very 1813 (Salem) – 1880



Thou art more deadly than the Jew of old,
Thou hast his weapons hidden in thy speech;
And though thy hand from me thou dost withhold,
They pierce where sword and spear could never reach.
Thou hast me fenced about with thorny talk,
To pierce my soul with anguish while I hear;
And while amid thy populous streets I walk,
I feel at every step the entering spear;
Go, cleanse thy lying mouth of all its guile
That from the will within thee ever flows;
Go, cleanse the temple thou dost now defile,
Then shall I cease to feel thy heavy blows;
And come and tread with me the path of peace,
And from thy brother's harm forever cease.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111010111 1111010011 0111111101 1111011101 1111011101 1111110111 01011100111 111100101001 1111011111 1101011101 110101111 1111111101 0101110111 0111010101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 621
Words 121
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 492
Words per stanza (avg) 119
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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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