"Stanzas in Meditation", like other works by Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), is distinguished by radical innovation based on language play, in particular, on repetitions of the same word or phrase, homonyms, homophones, polysemy and rhymes, which, together with unexpected anjambemans, completely change the meaning of the previous utterance. With the exception of dots, there are no punctuation marks in the Stanzas, and Gertrude Stein said: "Why put a question mark if it's already clear that it's a question." Writing, according to Stein, is a constant undertaking, a beginning when "everything is almost similar, it should be different and it is different, it is natural that everything is used and there is a continued present and a beginning over and over again, if everything is so similar, it should just be different and everything is just different was the natural way of creation then"