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The poem is an epitome of villanelle and its circularity. Owing to my observation, the refrain lines in this poem are at the second and third tarcets. By observation, it is because both tarcets end with the same phrase: “the art of losing isn’t hard to master.” It is as if the author is affirming the thought that losing is something that you can master very well after opening new thoughts like those in the first and third tarcets. But if you based it on lines – there are nineteen lines in total – the refrain lines are the first and third lines. The pattern of repetition occurs at every last line of every paragraph: there is an alternating ending with words “disaster” and “master”. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABA, of course, with the exception of the last line because the last paragraph is a quatrain. The last stanza differs from others because (1) it has four lines; (2) it does not follow the pattern of refrain lines that is in the first and third lines; (3) it’s got a lot of notes presented within a parenthesis. The refrain lines are not the same all throughout the entirety of the poem. The intention behind this is to give readers another angle through which they will understand the main thoughts of the poem, that is, ‘losing is not hard to master” and “losing is not a disaster.” My final thoughts about the poem is that it is both disappointing and liberating because the speaker acknowledges that she is losing a lot of things such as door keys, mother’s watch, etc. but she does not mention the reason for writing the poem; it is a loss that is rather bottomless, so hard to fathom that the speaker cannot even talk about it and instead recommends to “Write it!”