The poem’s turning point occurs when the speaker states that he wants to let God enter, but admits to succumbing to the “enemy” who we can assume to be the Devil. The speaker then compares himself to a seized town. The speaker wants the Trinity to enter his heart, life and mind aggressively and fiercely instead of compassionately and mercifully. The speaker in the poem begins by asking God, who is three persons in the Christian religion: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, to violently attack and enter his heart. The poem is written in iambic pentameter, meaning five groups of unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. The last six lines rhyme CDCE EE, the couplet not being typical of Petrarchan sonnets. The rhyme scheme of the first eight lines is the usual ABBA ABBA that we would normally see in a Petrachan sonnet. The poem form is variation on a Petrarchan sonnet that ends with a rhyming couplet. John Donne wrote most of his Holy Sonnets between 16.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,ĭivorce me, untie or break that knot again Įxcept you enthrall me, never shall be free, Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,īut is captivated, and proves weak or untrue. Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new. That I may rise and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Batter my heart, three-personed God, for youĪs yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend
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