Question

In Elizabeth Bishop’s “Sestina,” which six words repeat in the envoi?

A} September, rain, grandmother, stove, tears, house

B}Kitchen, September, rain, grandmother, stove, house

C} Grandmother, almanac, stove, child, tears, house


D}Grandmother, almanac, kitchen, stove, child, house​

Answer 1

C. Grandmother, almanac, stove, child, tears, house

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer 2

C} Grandmother, almanac, stove, child, tears, house.

Step-by-step explanation:

A sestina is a poem that consists of six stanzas of six lines each, followed by an envoi that is the last stanza with three lines. And there is a specific pattern of rhyming in the poem, which is ABCDEF, FAEBDC, CFDABE, ECBFAD, DEACFB, BDFECA with the envoi's rhyme EDA while also containing the rhymed words of FBC in between the lines.

Elizabeth Bishop's "Sestina" the rhymed words in the first six stanzas are "house, grandmother, child, stove, almanac, tears" which embody the lettering "ABCDEF" in the rhyme pattern. Now, these words are used in the last stanza, the envoi with the three words "almanac stove, house" ending the lines but the other three "grandmother, child, tears" are incorporated in the middle of the lines.

Thus, the correct answer is option C.