What are the poetic elements of song Breakeven by The Script?

Imagery:

* "The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out

You left me in the dark"

* "I'm sitting here staring at a blank page

Trying to write my thoughts down in a song

But all I see are words and phrases

Nothing makes any sense when you're gone"

* "The tears are rolling down my face

I never felt like this before

A broken heart"

Symbolism:

* The dark represents loneliness and despair.

* The blank page represents the speaker's inability to express his thoughts and feelings.

* The broken heart represents the speaker's emotional pain.

Rhyme:

* "dark" rhyming with "park"

* "song" rhyming with "gone"

* "phrases" rhyming with "mazes"

Repetition:

* The phrase "every broken heart" is repeated twice.

* The phrase "and that ain't no lie" is repeated twice.

Assonance:

* The "o" sound is repeated in the line "The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out".

* The "ee" sound is repeated in the line "trying to write my thoughts down in a song".

Consonance:

* The "f" sound in the lines "But all I see are words and phrases, Nothing makes any sense when you're gone".

* The "m" sound is repeated in line "_Maybe_ I lost my _mind_..."

Alliteration:

* The "l" sound is repeated in the line "'I'm feeling all, _love_ lost and found,"".

* The "b" sound is repeated in the line "Breakeven Back to how i was before _back_ to the _bottom_,"

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