Analysis of Age
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
An animal face in the brown green
Glows shyly to me, the bushes smolder.
Very far away an old fountain sings
With children's voices. I listen there.
The wild jackdaws mock me
And all around the birches veil themselves.
I stand silent before a weed fire
And softly pictures paint themselves on it,
An ancient fairytale of love on golden ground.
The clouds spread their silence on the hill.
From the ghostly pond-mirror
Fruits beckon, shining and heavy.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110010011 1101101010 1010111101 110101101 01111 010101101 1110010110 0101010111 11010111101 011110101 1010110 11010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 448 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 30 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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