Analysis of Holy Sonnet XI: Spit In My Face You Jewes
John Donne 1572 (London) – 1631 (London)
Spit in my face you Jewes, and pierce my side,
Buffet, and scoffe, scourge, and crucifie mee,
For I have sinn'd, and sinn'd, and onely hee,
Who could do no iniquitie, hath dyed:
But by my death can not be satisfied
My sinnes, which passe the Jewes impiety:
They kill'd once an inglorious man, but I
Crucifie him daily, being now glorified.
Oh let mee then, his strange love still admire:
Kings pardon, but he bore our punishment.
And Jacob came cloth'd in vile harsh attire
But to supplant, and with gainfull intent:
God cloth'd himselfe in vile mans flesh, that so
Hee might be weake enough to suffer woe.
Scheme | ABBAAACADEFGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011110111 10011011 111101011 1111111 111111110 1111011 11110100111 111010110 1111111101 11011110100 01011011010 110101101 111011111 1111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 614 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 468 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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