Analysis of Stanzas In Meditation: Stanza I

Gertrude Stein 1874 (Allegheny) – 1946 (Paris)



I caught a bird which made a ball
And they thought better of it.
But it is all of which they taught
That they were in a hurry yet
In a kind of a way they meant it best
That they should change in and on account
But they must not stare when they manage
Whatever they are occasionally liable to do
It is often easy to pursue them once in a while
And in a way there is no repose
They like it as well as they ever did
But it is very often just by the time
That they are able to separate
In which case in effect they could
Not only be very often present perfectly
In each way whichever they chose.
All of this never matters in authority
But this which they need as they are alike
Or in an especial case they will fulfill
Not only what they have at their instigation
Made for it as a decision in its entirety
Made that they minded as well as blinded
Lengthened for them welcome in repose
But which they open as a chance
But made it be perfectly their allowance
All which they antagonise as once for all
Kindly have it joined as they mind


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOJOPQROKJSTAU
Poetic Form
Metre 11011101 0111011 11111111 11000101 0011011111 111100101 111111110 10110100010011 11101010111001 000111101 1111111101 11110101101 11110110 01100111 1101101010100 01101011 111101000100 1111111101 10101011101 11011111010 11110010010100 1111011110 101110001 11110101 11111001010 11111111 10111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,038
Words 211
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 27
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 820
Words per stanza (avg) 209
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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