The loss she describes in the fourth stanza is an actual personal object that she remembers; we feel the emotion starting to come out here. Her mother's watch was the only thing Bishop had left of her late mother, and although it is a small item, it had sentimental value to her. In this stanza he begins to stop more, which is his sadness over this loss coming through in his writing. “The art of losing is not difficult to master” is repeated again, which is Elizabeth's way of trying to shake off her emotions, and enacting this harsh act as if to say, even if it meant something for me, it didn't yet. It doesn't hurt to lose it. Elizabeth Bishop tries to convince the reader and herself, again in the fifth stanza, by saying that the loss of two cities, two rivers, and a continent was not a "disaster." His "art" of not being touched by loss, an act that is about to be shattered. The pauses in this verse are becoming more frequent than the last, helping to foreshadow what is to come in the sixth verse, and the foundation of this