But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you.
Repetition is when a word or phrase is repeated a lot of times.
The poem 10 things I hate about you uses a great deal of repetition.
In the poem, "I hate the way..." Is repeated 10 times through 4 stanzas, this makes it powerful because at the end of the poem, the word which the audience will remember the most is "hate", which is a very negative word. "Not even" is repeated 3 times throughout the last verse. This is juxtaposition because first she hates him and now she says she doesn't hate him at all, to emphasise. The writer uses powerful language like repetition and juxtaposition to give a clear message to the audience that she doesn't hate him. "Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all".
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you
Metre is a beat which is a constant rhythm.
The poem 10 things I hate about you uses regular iambic metre and a broken beat to help the character show its emotions.
I hate the way you talk to me. The Poem uses, iambic metre to make it sound like natural speech and to keep the words flowing. However it has a "broken beat" which comes up sometimes through the stanzas. But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you.This shows how her emotion is breaking like when she starts crying. The writer uses a metre with broken beats and the I am beat which makes the character give her emotions.
