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21

Gertrude Stein 1874 (Allegheny) – 1946 (Paris)

I love my love with a v
Because it is like that
I love my love with a b
Because I am beside that
A king.
I love my love with an a
Because she is a queen
I love my love and a a is the best of them
Think well and be a king,
Think more and think again
I love my love with a dress and a hat
I love my love and not with this or with that
I love my love with a y because she is my bride
I love her with a d because she is my love beside
Thank you for being there
Nobody has to care
Thank you for being here
Because you are not there.

And with and without me which is and without she she can be late and then and how and all around we think and found that it is time to cry she and I.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABABCXXXCXBBDDEEXE X
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 668
Words 161
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 18, 1
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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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