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Send Me a Leaf

Bertolt Brecht 1898 (Augsburg) – 1956 (East Berlin)

Send me a leaf, but from a bush
That grows at least one half hour
Away from your house, then
You must go and will be strong, and I
Thank you for the pretty leaf.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 165
Words 37
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
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Bertolt Brecht

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