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.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 263
Words 56
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5

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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