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• The following version of this poem was used to create this Lesson Plan: Bishop Elizabeth. "One Art." Poetry Foundation (Web).

• On its surface, "One Art" is a poem that proclaims mastery over loss--but it uses structural techniques such as repetition and syntax as well as an artfully constructed revelation of its true audience to undermine its own assertions and suggest that some losses may be devastating regardless of our attempts to master them.

• "One Art" is a villanelle--a poem in 19 lines, divided into five three-line stanzas and concluding with a four-line stanza, with the first and third lines of the first stanza repeating as alternating refrains in the remaining stanzas.

• Each of the first 5 stanzas are rhymed ABA, although slant rhyme is used in several of the "A" lines, rather than true rhyme.

• The final stanza is rhymed ABAA.

• Each line has five...

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