villanelle

The art of losing something isn’t hard to master; So many thinks seem filled with the intent To be lost that their loss, is no disaster. Lose something everyday. Accept the fluster. Of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: Places, and names, and where it was you meant To travel. None of these will bring disaster. I lost …

…went, continent, and evident. Feminine rhymes are rhymes in which two consecutive syllables of the rhyming words correspond. Some examples of feminine rhymes used in the poem consist of disaster, master, fluster, and gesture. Fluster and gesture can also be considered half rhymes. “One Art” is a well-written poem because it follows the rules of the villanelle poetry style, it uses literary devises, and it carries meaning and purpose, which makes the poem worth reading.