National Poetry Month #9

Today, how about a good old villanelle? What’s a villanelle, you ask? Suffice it to say that it’s a French verse form that uses two repeating lines throughout the poem and lots of rhyme. Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art,” in addition to being a villanelle, is also an ars poetica, or, a poem about the making of poetry. Even though it’s 50 years old, it still slaps (and sings):