Analysis of Ginkgo Biloba
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
To my garden here translated,
Foliage of this eastern tree
Nourishes the initiated
With it’s meaning’s mystery.
Is its leaf one self divided,
Forked into a shape of strife?
Or have two of them decided
On a symbiotic life?
This I answer without trouble
And am qualified to know:
I am single, I am double,
And my poems tell you so.
| Scheme | ABAB ACXC DEDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11101010 1011101 10000100 1110100 11111010 1010111 1111110 100101 11100110 011011 11101110 0110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 330 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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