"All This and Heaven Too" by Florence + the Machine

In this song, there are a lot of poetic techniques used. For example, the first line she says,
"And the heart is hard to translate,
it has a language of its own,
it talks and tongues and quiet sighs and prayers and proclamations,
in the grand days of great men and the smallest of gestures,
in short shallow gasps."
In these lines, she personifies her heart as if it were its own person with a personality. She also uses a lot of consonance in the same line. She uses the t, pr, and g sound. It puts emphasis on what she is saying, and makes you pay attention to sound. She is using symbolism here. She is saying that the heart is hard to understand, and that we don't always know what it wants, so it's hard to understand what love is at times.

In the chorus, there is more consonance. For example,
"But with all my education,
I can't seem to commend it,
and the words are all escaping me,
and coming back all damaged."
In these lines, she constantly repeats the c sound, giving it a certain sound and repeated rhythm. She also personifies the words, like they are actually leaving her body, and becoming damaged. This gives the poem a bit more personality, and more symbolism. She is symbolizing how she doesn't really understand how love works when she writes it down, and how it can't be taught, it just comes naturally. How it is a strong feeling that would make her want to give all the heavens just for the one she loves.

One of the most common patterns used in this song was consonance throughout the whole song. There were consonance in almost every line of the song.