Holy Sonnet Xiv: Batter My Heart, Three-personed God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDEFDD| Batter my heart three personed God for you | A |
| As yet but knock breathe shine and seek to mend | B |
| That I may rise and stand o'erthrow me and bend | B |
| Your force to break blow burn and make me new | A |
| I like an usurped town to another due | A |
| Labor to admit you but O to no end | B |
| Reason your viceroy in me me should defend | B |
| but is captived and proves weak or untrue | A |
| yet dearly I love you and would be loved fain | C |
| But am betrothed unto your enemy | D |
| Divorce me untie or break that knot again | E |
| Take me to you imprison me for I | F |
| Except you enthrall me never shall be free | D |
| Nor even chaste except you ravish me | D |
John Donne
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