One Art Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA ABA ABA CBA ADA ADAA| The art of losing isn't hard to master | A |
| so many things seem filled with the intent | B |
| to be lost that their loss is no disaster | A |
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| Lose something every day Accept the fluster | A |
| of lost door keys the hour badly spent | B |
| The art of losing isn't hard to master | A |
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| Then practice losing farther losing faster | A |
| places and names and where it was you meant | B |
| to travel None of these will bring disaster | A |
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| I lost my mother's watch And look my last or | C |
| next to last of three loved houses went | B |
| The art of losing isn't hard to master | A |
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| I lost two cities lovely ones And vaster | A |
| some realms I owned two rivers a continent | D |
| I miss them but it wasn't a disaster | A |
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| Even losing you the joking voice a gesture | A |
| I love I shan't have lied It's evident | D |
| the art of losing's not too hard to master | A |
| though it may look like Write it like disaster | A |
Elizabeth Bishop
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