Mad Girl’s Love Song

I found the villanelles very powerful. The repetition in the 2nd, 4th, and 6th stanzas and in the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 6th stanzas seemed perfectly spaced so as to not forget about the line, but not have it dominate the poem. I found this effect especially powerful in “Mad Girl’s Love Song” because the line (I think I made you up inside my head) gives a less significant connotation to the line, almost as if the author is doubting what he’s saying. But with the repetition, we can see that the author partly believes what he’s saying. To me it seems that the author knows this girl is imagination but doesn’t want to admit it. But then when he says, I shut my eyes and the world drops dead, we can see that this girl is all he’s thinking about. So when shuts his eyes and thinks about her, nothing matters in the world around him anymore.