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Do you really want to suffer after a decision that someone else did to hurt you? Or make your own choices, but do them right, meaning you need to choose very good the people that will be with you in your life and make sure that that person is not going to hurt you.
The author of this poem is Roisin Sullivan, she was born in Boston, Masachussets on august 24, 1994. She is a college student that like poetry since she was 10 years old because of her mom, her mom was a writer of poems and Roisin said that all the nights when she was little her mom read her poems, the poems that her mom wrote. Now Roisin is not a famous poet beacause she is too young, but her goal is to become a famous poet.
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The second she used was repetition, she repeats alot you because she is refearing to him in particular and repeating unfriend because the poem is call that way and because this word means that she left him beacuse he went with that blonde.
The third one is metaphore, what she tries to do with the metaphore is to give the boy some hint about that he was not paying attention to the girl and she prefered to go with the blonde instead of her, an example is “So you were left behind for being deaf and blind”.
The last one is alliteration, she used alliteration at the last part because I think that she wants to end her poem with rhyme, one example of the poem is “How happy he makes me” She is repeating the first consonant that is H.
She is using all this to prove us that the boy was wrong in his decison to go with the bolnde and now he is happy and she is hurt, but she does not want him to now that because of him she is feeling pain, so in front of him she is a strong woman but inside she is devastated.

So do you really want to feel pain? I think that what you should do is choose the correct people. Think about

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