Analysis of Stanzas In Meditation: Stanza XIV

Gertrude Stein 1874 (Allegheny) – 1946 (Paris)



She need not be selfish but he may add
They like my way it is partly mine
In which case for them to foil or not please
Come which they may they may in June.
Not having all made plenty by their wish
In their array all which they plan
Should they be called covered by which
It is fortunately their stay that they may
In which and because it suits them to fan
Not only not with clover but with may it matter
That not only at a distance and with nearly
That they ran for which they will not only plan
But may be rain can be caught by the hills
Just as well as they can with what they have
And they may have it not only because of this
But because they may be here.
Or is it at all likely that they arrange what they like.
Nohody knows just why they are or are not anxious
While they sit and watch the horse which rests
Not because he is tired but because they are waiting
To say will they wait with them in their way
Only to say it relieves them that they go away
This is what they feel when they like it
Most of them do or which
It is very often their need not to be either
Just why they are after all made quickly faster
Just as they might do.
It is what they did say when they mentioned it
Or this.
It is very well to go up and down and look more
Than they could please that they see where
It is better that they are there


Scheme ABCDEFGHFIJFKLMNOPQRHHSGIITSMUVV
Poetic Form
Metre 1111101111 111111101 0111111111 11111101 1101110111 01011111 11111011 11100011111 0100111111 1101110111110 111010100110 11111111101 1111111101 1111111111 011111100111 1011111 11111101101111 11111111110 111010111 10111101011110 1111111011 1011101111101 111111111 111111 1110101111110 111110111010 11111 11111111101 11 1110111101011 11111111 11101111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,329
Words 280
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 32
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 1,039
Words per stanza (avg) 278
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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