Nature Theater
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
Now I step through the slender gate!
Promiscuous step in the avenues
Drifts away and quiet waft of words
From people, passersby.
I stand before a green stage!
Begin, begin again, you play
Of lost days, without crime and punishment,
Ghostly only, strange and cool!
To the melody of the early days
I see myself going up there again,
A child whose quiet, forgotten lament
I see weeping, strange to my understanding.
You wondering face turned to the evening,
Was I once this, that now makes me weep,
Like your still unfinished gestures
That point to the night mutely and shuddering.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXXX XXXX XXXA AXXA |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 581 |
Words | 103 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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