Great Regulars: This poem makes clever use

of the villanelle's power to make the same words sound new each time we hear them. The line about the lover's blue eyes is full of naughty double entendre in the second stanza, emotional vulnerability and pain in the fifth stanza, and sweet sincerity in the last stanza. There is a strong and subtle control of tone at work here, and a willingness to go through the kind of journey of discovery that a real poem can put us through.

from The Guardian: Poetry Workshop: Love poems

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