This is an analysis of the poem Tear It Down that begins with:
We find out the heart only by dismantling what
the heart knows. By redefining the morning, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXbXcXddbcXaXaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110101001 01110010010 110101111010 1111100010 101011110101 0101111001 1110010100101 11010111011 0100110110 101001110 101011001101 0011100011 0010101101 000010010101 01111110001010 11011101111 1101000110010 0110101001110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 857
- Average number of words per stanza: 155
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, than, pittsburgh, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, of are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines pittsburgh is repeated).
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