This is an analysis of At The Fishhouses by Elizabeth Bishop.
Although it is a cold evening,
down by one of the fishhouses…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXabcdXefghciehjfXfhjhjbkhfchjjlecackmXi fgemcd NbmalchXibXXdNfchjjhkhhjcmcekeaiiXffc
- Stanza lengths: 40,6,37,
- Metre: 11000110 11100100 111110 010010110100 01101 10101110 01111010 0111111110 0110011011 110101011 01000010 101100011111 101001010001 10101001001010 00110100010 01011110 010111 001010100 101110011001 1011101 011110101 0100100101 101101100010 0101010101 01101011010 11010101010 100111001 01101010 1011110 1110101111 10100110 011010101 110101110 110001001010 1010110 11110101010 11101011101 11101010010 01000101111 0101011101 110101101 1111011011 01000010110 111100100 01011111 110001111 111110101 1001000110 011011111000 1111101010 11100011111000010 110010010010 111011101 11011010100110 111001010101 1001001010 111101110001 11001100101 10000101010 111110101 01110101011 01011101 10010100111 0101011 101100101010 0101011111 11101011001101 1010000100101 10010101 01011101 0111110 111101000 111010111111 10010001000010 11111100111 01100011110 110110111 001110101000 111101001 100111 0010100101 010101111 110001001011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 83
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, would
Anaphora
with, the, your
Epiphora
stones
