This poem brimming with examples of parallelism. In fact, the device is built into the poem's form itself. Every stanza is a mirror image of another: the first few lines provide a scenario that the speaker then consistently responds to. The response is structured the same way in every stanza, beginning with the line "I say" which is then followed by the speaker's self-description. Each stanza is also concluded by a refrain that remains unchangeable from beginning to end.
The overarching structure of this description remains the same throughout the poem as well, drawing heavily on devices like anaphora and asyndeton to establish a sense of consistency. When the speaker describes herself, the lines follow nearly the exact same pattern each time:
I say,
It's in the [noun] of my [feature],
The [noun] of my [feature],
And so forth. The parallelism on the one hand simply drives the poem's message home through repetition. It also suggests that the speaker could just keep going and going—easily swapping in various features into these lines. That's because there isn't one singular element of herself that makes her phenomenal; rather, they all do, all together. She is not reducible to her parts.
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