One Art

Just considering the title I expect the poem to be about one specific type of art.

The layout made me understand the text is a poem and shows composition consists in 19 lines arranged in 6 stanzas of 3 lines each unless the last stanza that consists in 4 lines. They separated by blank spaces. 

You can find patterns: the sentence “the art of losing isn’t hard to master” is repeated lots of times and also the word “disaster” appears in stanzas 1, 3, 5 and 6.

While I read I felt sadness, a sense of loss and impotence. 

The rhyme scheme is ABA, and ABAA in the last stanza. The register is fairly informal, indeed the poem shows contracted forms, imperative and the pronoun “you”. Furthermore there are some common words such as “places”, “names”, “houses”, and most of vocabulary belongs to everyday life. In the poem there are lots of figures of speech, such as enjambments, assonances, consonances and a big metaphor: “One Art” may suggest that the art of losing and the art of writing poems are one and the same.

The message is that losing things and people is a part of life and that losing is an "art" that we must learn to survive.