The Sun Rising (poem)

The Sun Rising (also known as The Sunne Rising) is a thirty-line poem (a great example of an inverted aubade) with three stanzas published in 1633 by the English poet John Donne. The meter is irregular, ranging from two to six stresses per line in no fixed pattern. The longest lines are at the end of the three stanzas and the rhyme never varies—each stanza runs ABBACDCDEE. Donne's poems were known to be metaphysical with jagged rhythms, dramatic monologues, playful intelligence, and startling images. The poem personifies the sun.