Analysis of Holy Sonnet II: As Due By Many Titles I Resign
John Donne 1572 (London) – 1631 (London)
As due by many titles I resign
My self to Thee, O God; first I was made
By Thee, and for Thee, and when I was decayed
Thy blood bought that, the which before was Thine;
I am Thy son, made with Thy Self to shine,
Thy servant, whose pains Thou hast still repaid,
Thy sheep, thine image, and, till I betrayed
My self, a temple of Thy Spirit divine;
Why doth the devil then usurp on me?
Why doth he steal, nay ravish that's thy right?
Except thou rise and for thine own work fight,
Oh I shall soon despair, when I do see
That thou lov'st mankind well, yet wilt not choose me,
And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010101 1111111111 11011011101 1111010111 1111111111 1101111101 1111001101 11010111001 110101111 111111111 0111011111 1111011111 11111111111 01011111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 610 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 465 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 125 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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