Although the author wrote "Monday at the River" in conversation with "Saturday at the Border", she did not maintain the same structure for her poem and notably omitted the two additional stanzas. The omission of the two stanzas was done intentionally to demonstrate what a villanelle should look like in its standard form. The narrator instructs Caarruth's narrator to ensure that he too can write a "proper Villanelle" (Murdakhayeva 19), which follows the standard structure as opposed to a "fragile Villanelle" (Carruth 18), which deviates from the standard form of a villaelle. Furthermore, it suggests that Carruth's narrator has the resources necessary to write well, he just needs the right