Analysis of A Long Dress

Gertrude Stein 1874 (Allegheny) – 1946 (Paris)



That is the current that makes machinery,
that makes it crackle,
what is the current that presents a long line and a necessary waist.
What is this current.
What is the wind, what is it.

Where is the serene length,
it is there and a dark place is not a dark place,
only a white and red are black, only a yellow and green are blue,
a pink is scarlet, a bow is every color. A line distinguishes it.
A line just distinguishes it.


Scheme XXXXA XXXAA
Poetic Form Etheree  (30%)
Metre 11010110100 11110 11010110011001001 11110 1101111 110011 111001111011 10010111100100111 01110011100100101001 01101001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 426
Words 86
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 5
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 164
Words per stanza (avg) 42
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 27, 2023

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Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein was an American writer of novels, poetry and plays that eschewed the narrative, linear, and temporal conventions of 19th-century literature, and a fervent collector of Modernist art. more…

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