This is an analysis of the poem Tender Buttons [a Plate] that begins with:
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... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X X b X aXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010110100100010111110010001000111000100101010010 11010101010101001101000010101001000111011001001110011101010010110001 0110110110111001010010010101011101101111110011001010101001001101 0101101010110111100101000111011110 110110111011110101101000110101010101010 010101010101101110101010110110101101001001010 010101001011110110011010011101111111110011110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 186 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 37
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, nothing, not, it, more, in, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Tender Buttons [a Plate];
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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More information about poems by Gertrude Stein
- Analysis of Tender Buttons [objects]
- Analysis of Tender Buttons [a Box]
- Analysis of Tender Buttons [a Chair]
