Provide a description of your assigned poetic form, as well as an example (another poem, by
another poet, that follows the same form.) Then show how Bishop’s poem exhibits the
traditional strengths of this form.
Group #1: Double Sonnet; “The Prodigal”
Group #2: Villanelle; “One Art”
Group #3: Sestina; “Sestina”
Group #4: Free Verse; “The Bight”