Analysis of A Mounted Umbrella

Gertrude Stein 1874 (Allegheny) – 1946 (Paris)



WHAT was the use of not leaving it there where it would hang what was the use if there was no chance of ever seeing it come there and show that it was handsome and right in the way it showed it. The lesson is to learn that it does show it, that it shows it and that nothing, that there is nothing, that there is no more to do about it and just so much more is there plenty of reason for making an exchange.


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Characters 414
Words 88
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 1
Lines Amount 1
Letters per line (avg) 316
Words per line (avg) 86
Letters per stanza (avg) 316
Words per stanza (avg) 86
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein was an American writer of novels, poetry and plays that eschewed the narrative, linear, and temporal conventions of 19th-century literature, and a fervent collector of Modernist art. more…

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