Holy Sonnet Xiv: Batter My Heart 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 ever chaste except You ravish me | D |
John Donne
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