This is an analysis of Tender Buttons [chicken] by Gertrude Stein.
CHICKEN.
Pheasant and chicken, chicken is a peculiar third.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a b a b a X aXa
- Stanza lengths: 1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Metre: 10 1011010000101 10 010101010101010101010101 10 010101011011001100110111 10 11111110100010100010010100
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
chicken, alas, dirty, third, sticking, stick, in
