Analysis of Justice
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
Huts of childhood are in autumn,
Decayed hamlet; dark shapes,
Singing mothers in the evening wind;
At windows Angelus and hands fold.
Still birth; on green ground
Mystery and stillness of blue flowers.
Insanity opens the purple mouth:
Dies irae - grave and stillness.
Groping along green thorns;
In the sleep: blood-vomit, hunger and laughter;
Fire in the village, awakening in the green;
Fear and swaying on gurgling boat.
Or in wooden staircase again
The white shadow of the strange woman leans.-
Poor sinner longing away in the blueness
Left his putrefaction behind for lilies and rats.
Scheme | X X X X X X X A X X X X X X A X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010 011011 101000101 1101011 11111 1000101110 0100100101 111010 100111 00111010010 1000100100001 101011001 1010101 011101101 11010010010 1110111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 582 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 30 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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