An Evening
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
In the evening the sky was overcast.
And through the grove full of silence and grief
A dark-golden shower went.
Distant evening bells faded away.
The earth has drunk icy water,
At the forest's edge a fire lay glowing,
The wind quietly sang with angel's voices
And shivering I have gone to the knee,
In the heather, in bitter cresses.
Far outside clouds swam in silver puddles,
Desolate guards of love.
The heath was lonesome and unmeasured.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | A X X X X X B X B X X A |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 437 |
Words | 79 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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