Note 694 — Chapter V · THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL POETRY (continued 2)
Reading edition
Twelve centuries before Christ, Chinese women gathered plantain with a song that is particularly rich in repetition and refrain; Bücher quotes the translation of Strauss, of which a stanza runs thus:—
Pflücket, pflücket Wegerich,
Eija zu und pflücket ihn!
Pflücket, pflücket Wegerich,
Eija zu, ihr rücket ihn.
The whole song minutely follows the process of picking.