
Elizabeth Bishop — Sestina
Poetry Unbound
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The Six Words in E Cestina by Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth bishop was an american poet, and she was alive from 19 11 to 19 79. This is a poem from her book, questions of travel, which was published in 19 65. E cestina has six six line verses, and then it's got a seventh, shorter verse. The thing that governs these six, six lined verses is that there are six words,. Those words appear at the end of every line in each stanza. In elizabeth bishop's poem, the six words are, tears, almanac, grandmother, stove, child, house.
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