Analysis of Before Sunrise
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
In the dark many bird voices call,
The trees and the springs murmur noisily,
In the clouds a rose-colored glow sounds
Like early love's distress. The night blues away -
With shy hands the twilight softly polishes
The love lair, feverishly stirred up,
And lets the drunkenness of languished kisses end
In dreams, smiling and felt half-awake.
| Scheme | X X A X A X X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 001101101 0100110100 001011011 11010101101 11101101 01110011 010100110101 011001101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 341 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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