Considering the title, I expect the poem to be about art, may one specific type of art that can be important for the poet.

The poem is a Villanelle and is arranged in six stanzas. It hasn't a regular pattern, indeed five stanzas have three lines and the last has four lines. It has also the rhymes and its rhyme scheme is ABA and ABAA in the last stanza, but really the first A of the last stanza is a consonance, because of the repetition of the consonant sound.

In the first three tercets the poetess speaks about general situation of losing in the last three she speaks

about her own experience.

The speaker says that losing things/objects is not so important, but it becomes more difficult when we lose people, for this situation we need to learn the art of survival after a loss, it must become an art for us, something we can do easily, because in life it happens a lot of times to lose important people or situations for us.

So, within the poem is contained a suggestion that the poet gives to the reader. The use of the imperative forms gives more strength to the speaking voice’s suggestion, which invites the readers to follow it.

The colon (:) in the third stanza introduces a list of some things that if lost won’t bring disaster.

In the last stanza the poetess speaks to a "you", that isn't the reader but somebody she has lost, this stanza is a direct speech and we understand it from the symbol “- “

In the poem there is the repetition of the sentence “The art of losing isn't hard to master” three times. The refrain is used to stick the concept in the reader’s mind. In the last stanza the refrain suffers a variation, so it’s called incremental repetition.

There are also some consonance and alliteration, maybe to focus the attention of the reader on some words that for the poetess are important. It is used an informal language with an everyday lexis, making it easier for the reader to identify with the speaker.

In the poem there is the use of past, future and present tenses. The past forms refer to the speaker's losses over time, instead the present tenses show her current nostalgic and regret but also transforms her experiences in universal truths.

There is the use of some figure of speech like the metaphor and the enjambment. The first is used in the title and creates surprise in the reader, the second is used during all the text and creates a sense of advancement in the poem