Which lines in this excerpt from Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" use assonance?

He was speckled with barnacles,

fine rosettes of lime,

and infested

with tiny white sea-lice,

and underneath two or three

rags of green weed hung down.

While his gills were breathing in

the terrible oxygen

--the frightening gills,

fresh and crisp with blood, that can cut so badly„

I thought of the coarse white flesh

packed in like feathers,

the big bones and the little bones,

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29 March, 11:17

Which lines in this excerpt from Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" use assonance?

He was speckled with barnacles,

fine rosettes of lime,

and infested

with tiny white sea-lice,

and underneath two or three

rags of green weed hung down.

While his gills were breathing in

the terrible oxygen

--the frightening gills,

fresh and crisp with blood, that can cut so badly„

I thought of the coarse white flesh

packed in like feathers,

the big bones and the little bones,

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Phoenix Mullins · Answer 1

I'd say that the lines in this excerpt from Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" that use assonance are " ... with tiny white sea-lice," because is tiny white lice there is a repetition of the vowel i.

Assonance is the repetition of the same vowel in neighboring words.