Analysis of 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.
Scheme | A X X X X X B X B X X A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 001001110 0101111001 0110101 101011001 01111010 10101010110 0110011110 0100111101 001001010 1111101010 100111 0111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 437 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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