Analysis of Ballad (1)
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
A heart laments: you do not find her,
Her native country is probably far from here,
And her face is strange!
The night weeps by a door!
In the marble hall light upon light burns,
O stuffy, o stuffy! Somebody dies here!
A whisper somewhere: o do you not come?
The night weeps by a door!
A sobbing still: o that he would see the light!
Then it became dark there and here -
A sobbing: brother, o do you not pray?
The night weeps by a door.
| Scheme | x a x B x a x B x a x B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010111110 010101100111 00111 011101 0010110111 1101101011 010111111 011101 01011111101 11011101 0101011111 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 433 |
| Words | 90 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 12 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 28 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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