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Considering the title the intelligent reader finds out curiosity about the type of art the text will display.
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The text is divided in 6 stanzas. Each stanzas is made of 3 lines, except the last one which is made of 4 lines. The poem is of a typology called villanelle, which has got fixed verse. So the stanzas follows the same pattern.
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There are many everydays word, but terms that I don't know the meaning to.
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After reading the poem I felt sadness and impotence.
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a) The rhyme scene is ABA, and ABAA in the last stanza, whose the first line is more a consonance ( gesture vs master/disaster), but ot produced the same sound as in the others "A" lines.
b) Tercet and quatrain.
c) I think it would be sad. The speaker's voice sounds resigned to the inevitability of loss.
d) The speaker is addressing to a "you" who is not the reader, but maybe to person she' lost.
e) The speaker warns her listener/reader about the art of losing. In fact losing things or people is part of their life.
f) The speaker is talking about how easy it is to lose things and loved ones, due to distraction, loss of memory, lack of time, exile, or death.
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No, they don't because the title suggests the text is about something related to art, whereas the text is about various types of loss and the feelings connected to them.
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a) stanza 3
b) stanza 2
c) stanza 1
d) stanza 6
e) stanza 4
f) stanza 5
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1. stanzas
2. lines
3. rhyme scheme
4. "you"
5. loss
6. one
7. disaster
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1. The register is fairly informal, as shown by contracted forms and the direct address to the listener/reader through imperative and the pronoun “you”.
2. Common situations like losing a watch or key, or wasting time, are easy to imagine.
3. Metaphor= “One Art” may suggest that the art of losing and the art of writing poems are one and the same.

Enjambment= “so many things seem filled with the intent/ to be lost that their loss is no disaster”, “accept the fluster/ of lost door keys, the hour badly spent”, “places, and names, and where it was you meant/ to travel”, “and look! my last, or/ next-to-last, of three loved houses went”, “even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture/ I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident”.

Assonance= “the art of losing isn’t hard to master”, “places, and names, and where it was you meant”.

Alliteration and consonance= “so many seem filled with the intent/ to be lost that their loss is no disaster”.

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1. Repetitions= the art of losing isn’t hard to master; be lost/ lost door keys/ I lost; no disaster/ bring disaster/ wasn’t a disaster/ like disaster; losing farther/ losing faster/ even losing you; and look!/ look like.
2. Past tenses= you meant; I lost; loved houses went; I lost; I owned; it wasn’t; I shan’t have lied
3. Statements= the art of losing isn’t hard to master; their loss is no disaster; none of these will bring disaster; the art of losing’s not too hard to master.

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1. Words referring to feelings and emotions= intent, loss, fluster, loved, lovely ones, I miss, joking, I love
2. Nouns describing or defining her losses= things, door keys, hour, places, names, mother’s watch, three houses, two cities, realms, two rivers, a continent, voice, a gesture

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1. Present
2. Just one in its full form: “to be lost”; a few implicit forms: “lost door keys”, “an hour badly spent”
3. “lose something”; “accept the fluster”; “practice losing”; “look!”; “write it!”
4. Affirmative

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1. “marked” punctuation, such as exclamation marks, hyphens, brackets or other signals implying emphasis or a change of addressee: “look!”; “write it!”; “even losing you; (the joking voice, a gesture I loved)
2. The use of numbers: One Art; three loved houses; two cities; two rivers