The Mountain (Elizabeth Bishop poem)

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The Mountain (Elizabeth Bishop poem) Glossary

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blench

flinch

staggeringly

in an uncertain, stumbling manner

confront

challenge

impenetrable

uncrossable; unnavigable

demarcation

division

clambering

climbing; scrambling

sift

filter; fall

dribble

drip

quatrain

four-line stanza

refrain

repeated line or phrase within a poem

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