The Singer's House

What metaphors are used in The Singer's House by Seamus Heaney?

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Metaphor:

They loved music and swam in for a singer
who might stand at the end of summer
in the mouth of a whitewashed turf-shed,
his shoulder to the jamb, his song a rowboat far out in evening.

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The Singer's House