Analysis of Tender Buttons [a Plate]
Gertrude Stein 1874 (Allegheny) – 1946 (Paris)
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.
A sad size a size that is not sad is blue as every bit of blue is precocious. A kind of green a game in green and nothing flat nothing quite flat and more round, nothing a particular color strangely, nothing breaking the losing of no little piece.
A splendid address a really splendid address is not shown by giving a flower freely, it is not shown by a mark or by wetting.
Cut cut in white, cut in white so lately. Cut more than any other and show it. Show it in the stem and in starting and in evening coming complication.
A lamp is not the only sign of glass. The lamp and the cake are not the only sign of stone. The lamp and the cake and the cover are not the only necessity altogether.
A plan a hearty plan, a compressed disease and no coffee, not even a card or a change to incline each way, a plan that has that excess and that break is the one that shows filling.
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Metre | 101010110100101010011110010001010111010101101011010 10010111010101001001111010101001000101011111001110001101010010111101 0110111111111001111010011101010101101101110001001010101001011101 01010101011111100101011111011110 11011011101111010011110010010001010010 01110101110100111010111010010010110100100010 01010100101011011001101101110111110111011110 |
Characters | 1,310 |
Words | 259 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 147 |
Words per line (avg) | 37 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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