This is an analysis of the poem The True Aaron that begins with:

See Aaron, God's anointed priest,
Within the veil appear;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cccc caca adad Xece fgfg adad cdcd ahah
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 010101 01010101 010101 01011101 010001 01010101 010101 00100111 010101 11001001 010101 10110101 010101 01010101 011001 11010110 010111 11010101 111111 11010101 110101 01000111 010111 01010001 111001 11011101 010101 01110111 110001 00100111 010101 01110111 111111 11110101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.

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