Villanelle - One Art

A villanelle is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet repeated alternately until the last stanza, which includes both repeated lines. The purpose of the villanelle format is to mimic a train of thought or a thought process. While the other two peoples, in my opinion, did a better job using the villanelle formation it's classical sense, One Art succeeded in being the best because the villanelle format best furthered its purpose in detailing to the reader the idea and the thought of losing something or someone. 

More over, this poem is much less of a narrative than the others. Seemingly random pieces are linked to the central theme or loss which mimics perfectly the jumpiness of a human's train of thought. Therefor, I believe that One Art does a better job in tailoring the villanelle format/style to further the central theme even if the other two poems adhere better to the classical, strict villanelle.

This is a photograph taken by an artist commissioned to interpret Elizabeth Bishop's poems. The one shown is specifically for One Art.

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