This is an analysis of A Poor&Mdash;Torn Heart&Mdash;A Tattered Heart by Emily Dickinson.
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A poor—torn heart—a tattered heart—…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X XXaXXXbb aXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths: 1,8,8,
- Metre: 1 01001001010 1101010 11010101 1100010 110101100 1101010 0101010 010101 010000011 0101100 10010101 1100010 10000101000 10000000100 10110101 101001
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 17
Anaphora
nor, there
