Question

from the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses verbal irony?
If only that top pattern could be gotten off from the under one! I mean to try it, little by little.
I got up softly and went to feel and see if the paper did move, and when I came back John was awake.
It is so hard to talk to John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so.
But I am securely fastened now by my well-hidden rope—you don't get me out in the road there!