Analysis of Ballad (2)
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
A sultry garden stood the night.
We kept silent ourselves about what grips us horribly.
From this our hearts awoke
And succumbed under the burden of silence.
No star blossomed in that night
And nobody asked for us.
Only a demon has laughed in the darkness.
Be cursed everyone! Then the deed came into being.
| Scheme | A X X X A B B X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010101 111000101111100 1110101 00110010110 1110011 01111 10010110010 111010110110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 308 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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