This is an analysis of Stanzas In Meditation: Stanza Xv by Gertrude Stein.

Should they may be they might if they delight
In why they must see it be there not only necessarily…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaccddadXeeeXXffccaggebXXXXgg
  • Stanza lengths: 30,
  • Metre: 1110110101 0111100111010100 11110111 1111010111 11111111 01001100000 1101100 0111010000100 0100 010101001101 0010010111001101 0010010101 111111 1110111101 111010111111 01010110011010 1011110 1111110111 0110100010111 1110011110 11011110111 11001101101 1111111010100 01010011101010 1111000111011 11111010110111 11110101010 111100010010 1100111111 11101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

they, might, which, it, there, be, in, direction, look, care, and

Anaphora

in, they

Epiphora

there, is