Analyzing Anonymous's Poem

In my 7th grade English class I chose the poem Perfection written by Anonymous as the basis for my interpretive essay. In this poem the author is trying to explain how perfection is only an idea and how everyone is imperfect in their own perfect way. The message of this poem is that we created perfection to strive for it. The most important line in this poem is “You strive to be “perfect.” This is the most important one because it represents the message that the author is trying to convey. I am going to now talk about four poetic devices that the author used in this poem. My first example is of hyperbole, “We spend every hour of every day, every day of every week”. This is an example of hyperbole because it is an exaggeration. Trying to
The next example is of repetition, “trying to be different, trying to be unique”. This is an example of repetition because it is trying to emphasize that we try so hard to make ourselves stand out, by looking and acting not like ourselves. My third example is of rhyme. In 14 and 16 the lines end in “understand” and “of hand”. This is an example of rhyme, because there are other lines in the poem that rhyme with each other and this is just one of them. My last example is of rhythm, “ to make us feel imperfect”. This is an example of rhythm because the line has a pattern like a heartbeat, 1,2...1,2...1,2. I really like this poem because I think that it's something almost anyone can relate to. The strive to be better, to perfect yourself. But I think that the author has a really good message about how everyone is imperfect