Tender Buttons [a Plate] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D E A DAn 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 | A |
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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 | B |
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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 | C |
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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 | D |
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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 | E |
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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 |
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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 | D |
Gertrude Stein
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