Pattern Poems

The poem "Lonely Hearts" is written as a villanelle. It gives the poem a very structured similarity through each stanza even though they are all very different "preferences". The speaker speaks about how people are all looking for a different kind of companion with specific attributes, but they are all looking for one common thing, love. It is this "simple wish" that connects all people. Another pattern in this poem besides it's repetition of the lines "Do you live in North London? Is it you?" and "Can someone make my simple wish come true?" is its newspaper ad stanzas. They are all based off of the ads found in newspapers or magazines. They are not complete sentences, but are very short descriptions of exactly what they are looking for. This pattern adds to the tone of the poem, which is the desperateness of searching for someone to love.