This is an analysis of Tender Buttons [apple] by Gertrude Stein.
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Apple plum, carpet steak, seed clam, colored wine, calm seen, cold cream, best shake, potato, potato and no no gold work with pet, a green seen is called bake and change sweet is bready, a little piece a little piece please.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X X X
- Stanza lengths: 1,1,1,
- Metre: 10 101101111011111110110111111101011011111010010101011 010111010010001101010111101111101000101001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 3
Anaphora
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Anadiplosis
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