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Bishop Uses Villanelle's Poem 'One Art'

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Bishop uses Villanelle her poem “One Art”. The way villanelle is set up is that it has nineteen lines. Then they are divided up by six stanzas. The first five stanza have three lines and the last stanza has four.The poem uses two rhymes,everything either rhymes with a or b, in Bishop's poem she makes sure that the lines rhyme with intent or disaster. When poets use villanelle in their poems they use lines that repeat themselves several times. Bishop makes sure that she sticks to “the art of losing isn’t hard to master”. Bishop always ends in the word "disaster" in lines 3, 9, 15, and 19. When it comes to using meters Bishop uses ten-syllable line in which every other syllable is stressed. Bishop uses metaphors in her poem such as material
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