This is an analysis of Tender Buttons [a Box] by Gertrude Stein.
A BOX.
A large box is handily made of what is necessary to replace any substance. Suppose an example is necessary, the plainer it is made the more reason there is for some outward recognition that there is a result.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X X a X X a aXa
- Stanza lengths: 1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Metre: 01 01101001010101000110100110100101001000101101011101010110001 010101100101001010101111010100110 0101010101010111001011001111111000100101010011101001110100110011101101010100100100101101100100100111010101101101000100111010 10110001011101010101001111100001010110101111100 110001100011001010010110111010110110111001101110110110101010 10011110101101011111100101110011001001010110110 101101011010101010011000010011001101110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
to, necessary, box, and, that, there, it, have, made, different, table, on, one, be, than, cigarettes, left, color, why
Anaphora
a
