Hideous-looking, Obese, Smelly, Ill-tempered, Lazy, Cowardly, Chronic and Complete Liar Seeks Total Opposite

After reading this week's list of poems, I've realized that I enjoy villanelles most.  And seeing as Wendy Cope's Lonely Hearts is a villanelle, it wasn't too hard to swallow.  Basically, the poem seems to contain different "personals", from a newspaper for instance, in which singles search for a soulmate.  I found evidence of repetition having a function (#15) in the poem, mainly in the two key lines repeated throughout the poem.

"Can someone make my simple wish come true? / Male biker seeks female for touring fun. / Do you live in North London? Is it you?" [lines 1-3, emphasis added]

Because the bolded lines are brought back at the end of each stanza alternating, they must serve some function.  Although each stanza described a single searching for specific attributes (e.g. "gay vegetarian", "bisexual woman, arty", "slim non-smoker, under twenty-one", etc.), the first and last lines of the poem remained as the constant.  This conveyed the idea that, while their interests varied, all the ads commonly sought the same thing, love; literally, they wanted one to make their "wish come true...in North London".  I think Michael has something to say about this...