Analysis of Stanzas In Meditation: Stanza LXXXIII

Gertrude Stein 1874 (Allegheny) – 1946 (Paris)



Why am I if I am uncertain reasons may inclose.
Remain remain propose repose chose.
I call carelessly that the door is open
Which if they may refuse to open
No one can rush to close.
Let them be mine therefor.
Everybody knows that I chose.
Therefor if therefore before I close.
I will therefore offer therefore I offer this.
Which if I refuse to miss may be miss is mine.
I will be well welcome when I come.
Because I am coming.
Certainly I come having come.
These stanzas are done.


Scheme AABBACAAADEFEB
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110101011 010101011 11100101110 111101110 111111 11111 1001111 1110111 1111011101 111011111111 111110111 011110 10011101 11011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 490
Words 94
Sentences 13
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 379
Words per stanza (avg) 92
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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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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