Twice

• Heart is symbolic and valuable - she is offering her life to someone
• Parallelism of 1st lines of the 1st and 2nd stanza highlights the change in possession
• Use of imperatives in the first stanza
• The use of brackets represents an aside (thought process)
• "Yet a woman's words are weak" - alliteration - "w" is a very soft and weak sounding letter which emphasises the weakness of the woman's words
• The heart is compared to fruit - it is unripe
• "Better wait awhile" - vague and unconvincing
• Trochee emphasise the caesura in the 3rd stanza "...broke - Broke"
• Switches to present tense halfway through the 3rd stanza
• The male in the poem is rejecting the female compared to No, Thank You John where it is the other way around
• The structure of the 1st half of the poem is mirrored in the second half
• References to judgement day
• "Yea, judge me now" - confident tone
• "O my God, O my God" - said aloud unlike "O my love"
• Judgement is a biblical illusion
• Fire to purge sins - suffering is needed
• "I shall not die but live" - self belief - declarative and confident
•   "All that I have I bring...I give" - determination to live for God and parallelism is similar to that of a hymn or prayer
• "But shall not question much" - won't question anything from God