This is an analysis of Tender Buttons [a Chair] by Gertrude Stein.
A CHAIR.
A widow in a wise veil and more garments shows that shadows are even. It addresses no more, it shadows the stage and learning. A regular arrangement, the severest and the most preserved is that which has the arrangement not more than always authorised.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X X a a X X a X X
- Stanza lengths: 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Metre: 01 01000111110111111001101101101110010001000101010101110010111111000 01000100111001011001001010100111110001010101100011010 0101100100111111010110111101001100101010101100 1010010011111010101001001011010 1100100010000010010100111101101 010010001001111010100101110111010111001110010100 1010111111010111001010100101010010001101000110010101101011011100010000010100001010011000 0010100100010100001011010101110101110010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 9
Repeated words/phrases
and, that, more, suitable, no, not, it, spectacle, than
Anaphora
a
