Explication of poem "Break of Day"

Upon first reading the poem “Break of Day,” by John Donne I was instantly struck by it’s similarity to a line from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In Act 3 Scene 5 Juliet remarks “It is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.” Juliet is begging Romeo to stay with her, claiming he doesn’t yet have to leave because it is not quite morning, a time when the lark would sing. Donne’s poem is similar in situation and having a feeling of desperation.
Donne opens the piece with “‘Tis true, ‘tis day, what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me?” The first line depicts the narrator’s exasperation with passing time and sad inquiry of whether their lover will leave them. The narrator reasons with their partner, who is the receiver of these pleas, claiming “Why should we rise because ‘tis light? Did we lie down because ‘twas night?” He continues to disregard time with the expression “Love, which in spite of darkness brought us hither, Should in despite of light keep us together.” He finds that their being together should not be exclusive to night’s ability to hide them, an ability that they didn’t rely on for their connection in the first place.
The second stanza personifies day-light and gives it reason in the situation, logic that the two lovers seem not to have. The individual narrating claims “Light hath no tongue, but is all eye” in hopes of convincing his love that light has no power to indicate their time around one another and can only shed light on what they do. He does find that if light did have a voice, it would view their relations as vexed. The speaker states that “the worst disease of love” is “the poor, the foul, the false, love can / Admit, but not the busied man.” To the narrator, it is feelings that reflect the negativity found in a relationship, but those in the relationship themselves refuse to see it due to their ‘busied’ nature. The final line of the piece reflects the conflict felt by the subject. Donne writes: “He which hath business, and makes love, doth do / Such wrong, as when a married man doth woo.” The central issue of the poem is revealed in that the speaker is in love with a person that they are not legally wed to. The narrator addressing their lover is done most likely during the-morning-after when they wake and realize the fault in their decision and wrongs in their relationship. To the narrator, the break of day is also the end to his errant relationship.