Analysis of From Four Saints in Three Acts
Gertrude Stein 1874 (Allegheny) – 1946 (Paris)
Pigeons on the grass alas.
Pigeons on the grass alas.
Short longer grass short longer longer shorter yellow grass. Pigeons
large pigeons on the shorter longer yellow grass alas pigeons on the
grass.
If they were not pigeons what were they.
If they were not pigeons on the grass alas what were they. He had
heard of a third and he asked about if it was a magpie in the sky.
If a magpie in the sky on the sky can not cry if the pigeon on the
grass alas can alas and to pass the pigeon on the grass alas and the
magpie in the sky on the sky and to try and to try alas on the
grass alas the pigeon on the grass the pigeon on the grass and alas.
They might be very well they might be very well very well they might
be.
Let Lucy Lily Lily Lucy Lucy let Lucy Lucy Lily Lily Lily Lily
Lily let Lily Lucy Lucy let Lily. Let Lucy Lily.
Scheme | AAbcadefcccaghhh |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 1010101 1101110101010110 110101010101011010 1 110110101 1101101010110111 11010110111101001 101001101111101010 1011010110101010100 10011010110110110 101010101010101001 11110111110110111 1 110101010101101010101010 10110101011011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 819 |
Words | 173 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 644 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 171 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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