Analysis of Aaron

George Herbert 1593 (Montgomery) – 1633 (Bemerton)



Holiness on the head,
Light and perfection on the breast,
Harmonious bells below, raising the dead
To led them unto life and rest.
Thus are true Aarons dressed.

Profaneness in my head,
Defects and darkness in my breast,
A noise of passions ringing me for dead
Unto a place where is no rest.
Poor priest thus am I dressed.

Only another head
I have, another heart and breast,
another music, making live not dead,
without whom I could have no rest:
In him I am well dressed.

Christ is my only head,
My alone only heart and breast,
My only music, striking me even dead;
That to the old man I may rest,
And be in him new dressed.

So holy in my head,
Perfect and light in my dear breast,
My doctrine tuned by Christ, (who is not dead,
But lives in me while I do rest)
Come people; Aaron's dressed.


Scheme ABABB ABABB ABABB ABABB ABABB
Poetic Form
Metre 100101 10010101 01001011001 11110101 111101 1011 10010011 0111010111 10011111 111111 100101 11010101 0101010111 01111111 011111 111101 10110101 11010101101 11011111 010111 110011 01010111 1101111111 11011111 110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 779
Words 154
Sentences 8
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 122
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 27, 2023

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George Herbert

The Very Reverend Honourable George Herbert was an Anglican priest. more…

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