Analysis of Yet Dish

Gertrude Stein 1874 (Allegheny) – 1946 (Paris)



I
Put a sun in Sunday, Sunday.
Eleven please ten hoop. Hoop.
Cousin coarse in coarse in soap.
Cousin coarse in soap sew up. soap.
Cousin coarse in sew up soap.

II
A lea ender stow sole lightly.
Not a bet beggar.
Nearer a true set jump hum,
A lamp lander so seen poor lip.

III
Never so round.
A is a guess and a piece.
A is a sweet cent sender.
A is a kiss slow cheese.
A is for age jet.

IV
New deck stairs.
Little in den little in dear den.

V
Polar pole.
Dust winder.
Core see.
A bale a bale o a bale.

VI
Extravagant new or noise peal extravagant.

VII
S a glass.
Roll ups.

VIII
Powder in wails, powder in sails, powder is all next to it is does
wait sack rate all goals like chain in clear.

IX
Negligible old star.
Pour even.
It was a sad per cent.
Does on sun day.
Watch or water.
So soon a moon or a old heavy press.

X
Pearl cat or cat or pill or pour check.
New sit or little.
New sat or little not a wad yet.
Heavy toe heavy sit on head.

XI
Ex, ex, ex.
Bull it bull it bull it bull it.
Ex Ex Ex.

XII
Cousin plates pour a y shawl hood hair.
No see eat.

XIII
They are getting, bad left log lope, should a court say stream, not
a dare long beat a soon port.

XIV
Colored will he.
Calamity.
Colored will he
Is it a soon. Is it a soon. Is it a soon. soon. Is it a soon. soon.

XV
Nobody’s ice.
Nobody’s ice to be knuckles.
Nobody’s nut soon.
Nobody’s seven picks.
Picks soap stacks.
Six in set on seven in seven told, to top.

XVI
A spread chin shone.
A set spread chin shone.

XVII
No people so sat.
Not an eider.
Not either. Not either either.

XVIII
Neglect, neglect use such.
Use such a man.
Neglect use such a man.
Such some here.

XIX
Note tie a stem bone single pair so itching.

XX
Little lane in lay in a circular crest.

XXI
Peace while peace while toast.
Paper eight paper eight or, paper eight ore white.

XXII
Coop pour.
Never a single ham.
Charlie. Charlie.

XXIII
Neglect or.
A be wade.
Earnest care lease.
Least ball sup.

XXIV
Meal dread.
Meal dread so or.
Meal dread so or bounce.
Meal dread so or bounce two sales. Meal dread so or bounce two
sails. Not a rice. No nor a pray seat, not a little muscle, not a
nor noble, not a cool right more than a song in every period
of nails and pieces pieces places of places.

XXV
Neat know.
Play in horizontal pet soap.

XXVI
Nice pose.
Supper bell.
Pull a rope pressed.
Color glass.

XXVII
Nice oil pail.
No gold go at.
Nice oil pail.
Near a paper lag sought.
What is an astonishing won door. A please spoon.

XXVIII
Nice knee nick ear.
Not a well pair in day.
Nice knee neck core.
What is a skin pour in day.

XXIX
Climb climb max.
Hundred in wait.
Paper cat or deliver

Little drawers of center.
Neighbor of dot light.
Shorter place to make a boom set.
Marches to be bright.

XXXI
Suppose a do sat.
Suppose a negligence.
Suppose a cold character.

XXXII
Suppose a negligence.
Suppose a sell.
Suppose a neck tie.

XXXIII
Suppose a cloth cape.
Suppose letter suppose let a paper.
Suppose soon.

XXXIV
A prim a prim prize.
A sea pin.
A prim a prim prize
A sea pin.

XXXV
Witness a way go.
Witness a way go. Witness a way go. Wetness.
Wetness.

XXXVI
Lessons lettuce.
Let us peer let us polite let us pour, let us polite. Let us polite.

XXXVII
Neither is blessings bean.

XXXVIII
Dew Dew Drops.
Leaves kindly Lasts.
Dew Dew Drops.

XXXIX
A R. nuisance.
Not a regular plate.
Are, not a regular plate.

XL
Lock out sandy.
Lock out sandy boot trees.
Lock out sandy boot trees knit glass.
Lock out sandy boot trees knit glass.

XLI
A R not new since.
New since.
Are new since bows less.

XLII
A jell cake.
A jelly cake.
A jelly cake.

XLIII
Peace say ray comb pomp
Peace say ray comb pump
Peace say ray comb pomp
Peace say ray comb pomp.

XLIV
XL


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Poetic Form
Metre 1 101011 0101111 1010101 10101111 1010111 1 01101110 10110 1001111 01101111 1 1011 0101001 0101110 010111 01111 1 111 100110011 1 101 110 11 0101101 1 010011110100 1 101 11 1 10011001101111111 111111101 1 100011 110 110111 1111 1110 1101101101 1 111111111 11110 111101011 10110111 1 111 11111111 111 1 101101111 111 1 11101111101111 0111011 1 1011 0100 1011 110111011101111011 1 11 111110 111 1101 111 101110010111 1 0111 01111 1 11011 111 11011010 1 010111 1101 011101 111 1 11011101110 1 10101001001 1 11111 101101110111 1 11 100101 1010 1 011 011 1011 111 1 11 1111 11111 1111111111111 11011101110101010 110101111010100100 110101010110 1 11 1001011 1 11 101 1011 101 1 111 1111 111 101011 111010011011 1 1111 101101 1111 1101101 1 111 1001 1011010 101110 10111 10111011 10111 1 01011 010100 0101100 1 010100 0101 01011 1 01011 0110011010 011 1 01011 011 01011 011 1 10011 100111001110 10 1 1010 111110111111011101 1 101101 1 111 1101 111 1 0110 101001 1101001 1 1110 111011 11101111 11101111 1 01111 11 11111 1 011 0101 0101 1 11111 11111 11111 11111 1 1
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 3,634
Words 738
Sentences 146
Stanzas 44
Stanza Lengths 6, 5, 6, 3, 5, 2, 3, 3, 7, 5, 4, 3, 3, 5, 7, 3, 4, 5, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 3, 5, 6, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 3, 2, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 5, 2
Lines Amount 184
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 63
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 27, 2023

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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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