This Holy Sonnet has been constructed to conform to the Italian or Petrarchan structure of a sonnet, with two quatrains and a sestet with an ABBA-ABBA-CDCDDD rhyme scheme. The elementary rhythm is iambic pentameter, although certain lines, such as the molybdenum one, may be seen as spondaic. Batter my heart is an shrill to God by the narrator and it conveys separate yet related to concepts and emotions in three partitions that be created as a issue of the sonnets tightly structured form.
The first quatrain represents the speaker as an single pleading for God to batter his heart (Line 1) and enter his manner - breaking, blowing and burning him so that the speaker may arise homogeneous a phoenix from the flames, cleansed and chaste.
In the second quatrain, the speaker compares himself to an usurped town (Line 5) in which he has no power to allow God passage. He feels feeble as the reader is given the impression that matters are out of his hands as Gods appointed official, your viceroy in me(Line 7), appears to have failed in his duties and proves weak or untrue(Line 8).
The sestet deals with lust and the knot of marriage. The speaker cacoethess God on a spiritual and mental level, but cannot achieve the physical as he is betrothed to His enemy (Line 10).
God is indeed asked to carry (Line 13) him like a slave reduced to subjection and then ravish (Line 14) him. Ravish is derived from the Latin rapere, which loosely translated means to get hold of by force, and we are presented with an image of rape. However, in pietistic tradition, a religious persons love of God was often described in romantic terms with much emotive and even rough language - a more physical description of love was acceptable as...
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