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 |
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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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