Analysis of Study Of Two Pears

Wallace Stevens 1879 (Reading) – 1955 (Hartford)



I
Opusculum paedagogum.
The pears are not viols,
Nudes or bottles.
They resemble nothing else.

II
They are yellow forms
Composed of curves
Bulging toward the base.
They are touched red.

III
They are not flat surfaces
Having curved outlines.
They are round
Tapering toward the top.

IV
In the way they are modelled
There are bits of blue.
A hard dry leaf hangs
From the stem.

V
The yellow glistens.
It glistens with various yellows,
Citrons, oranges and greens
Flowering over the skin.

VI
The shadows of the pears
Are blobs on the green cloth.
The pears are not seen
As the observer wills.


Scheme ABCCC ACCCD ACCXX EDXCB ECCCX ACXXC
Poetic Form Tetractys  (37%)
Metre 1 11 01111 1110 1010101 1 11101 0111 100101 1111 1 1111100 1011 111 1000101 1 001111 11111 01111 101 1 0101 11110010 110001 1001001 1 01101 111011 01111 100101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 594
Words 107
Sentences 14
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 30
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 78
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 29, 2023

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