This is an analysis of Tender Buttons [a Plate] by Gertrude Stein.
An occasion for a plate, an occasional resource is in buying and how soon does washing enable a selection of the same thing neater. If the party is small a clever song is in order.
Plates and a dinner set of colored china. Pack together a string and enough with it to protect the centre, cause a considerable haste and gather more as it is cooling, collect more trembling and not any even trembling, cause a whole thing to be a church.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a X X b X aXb
- Stanza lengths: 1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Metre: 101010110100100010111110010001000111000100101010010 11010101010101001101000010101001000111011001001110011101010010110001 0110110110111001010010010101011101101111110011001010101001001101 0101101010110111100101000111011110 110110111011110101101000110101010101010 010101010101101110101010110110101101001001010 010101001011110110011010011101111111110011110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 7
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, nothing, not, it, more, in, by
Anaphora
a
