"One Art" is a villanelle because it consists of 19 lines divided into 5 tercets and a concluding quatrain. The first and third lines of the first tercet are alternately repeated in the following tercets, and both lines are repeated in the final quatrain. This repetition structure gives the poem its distinctive form and contributes to its theme of mastering the art of loss.
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