OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (that's twenty of em).

"Edward" just might be one of the most annoying things that I have ever read. Despite that, it does have some good pattern to it. Most of the lines in the poem are repeated a few times. This creates a flow to the poem that makes it feel much more like a conversation. It also uses the word "O" twenty times. I'm not quite sure why the speaker does this, but it seems to add some sort of emphasis. I picture a person with their finger pointing at a person and scolding them. The mother and Edward seem to be in some crazy discussion where each person knows the answers to the other question, yet they ask anyway. That is why the mother never reacts to Edward's answers. She already knows what he did. She is actually the one who told him to kill his father.