This is an analysis of Stanzas In Meditation: Stanza I by Gertrude Stein.
I caught a bird which made a ball
And they thought better of it.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbbbbXXacdXbdeceXaXedcffad
- Stanza lengths: 27,
- Metre: 11011101 1111000 10010111 11000101 0010011101 111101101 111111110 110110100010001 00101000101001 100110101 1101111100 10010101101 111100101 01100111 1100101001100 01101011 100101000100 1011111101 10101011001 110111111010 11010010000100 1111011110 101010001 11110101 11001001010 11110001111 10101111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 27
Repeated words/phrases
they, it, in, as
Anaphora
made, but
