Analysis of Stanzas In Meditation: Stanza XIII

Gertrude Stein 1874 (Allegheny) – 1946 (Paris)



There may be pink with white or white with rose
Or there may be white with rose and pink with mauve
Or even there may be white with yellow and yellow with blue
Or even if even it is rose with white and blue
And so there is no yellow there but by accident.


Scheme ABCCD
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111111 11111110111 110111111001011 1101101111101 0111110111100
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 263
Words 56
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 40
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 201
Words per stanza (avg) 54
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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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