This is an analysis of A Long Dress by Gertrude Stein.

That is the current that makes machinery, that makes it crackle, what is the current that presents a long line and a necessary waist. What is this current.
What is the wind, what is it.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a aXa
  • Stanza lengths: 1,3,
  • Metre: 100101101001101010010110011101010110010 1001100 100011001101101011100111111001011110101001010010010100001101000
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 3

Epiphora

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