Aaron Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB BBBBB BBBBB BBBBB BBBBB| Holiness on the head | A |
| Light and perfections on the breast | B |
| Harmonious bells below raising the dead | A |
| To lead them unto life and rest | B |
| Thus are true Aarons drest | B |
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| Profaneness in my head | B |
| Defects and darkness in my breast | B |
| A noise of passions ringing me for dead | B |
| Unto a place where is no rest | B |
| Poor priest thus am I drest | B |
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| Only another head | B |
| I have another heart and breast | B |
| Another music making live not dead | B |
| Without whom I could have no rest | B |
| In him I am well drest | B |
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| Christ is my only head | B |
| My alone only heart and breast | B |
| My only music striking me ev'n dead | B |
| That to the old man I may rest | B |
| And be in him new drest | B |
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| So holy in my head | B |
| Perfect and light in my dear breast | B |
| My doctrine tun'd by Christ who is not dead | B |
| But lives in me while I do rest | B |
| Come people Aaron's drest | B |
George Herbert
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