Analysis of Colorful Autumn
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
The fountain sings, the clouds stand
In clear blueness, white, delicate;
Silent people wander thoughtfully
Down there in the evening-blue garden.
The ancestors' marble has turned grey.
A line of birds streaks into the distance
A faun with dead eyes gazes
On shadows that glide into darkness.
Leaves fall red from the old tree,
Rotate inside through the open window.
The room glows in dark fires,
In it shadows, like ghosts.
Opal smoke weaves over the grass,
A cloud of wilted, bleached scents,
In the fountain the sickle moon shines
Like a green glass in freezing air.
Scheme | X X A X X X X X A X X X X X X X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101011 01101100 101010100 110010110 01010111 0111101010 0111110 11110110 1111011 101101010 0110110 01111 10111001 0111011 001001011 10110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 561 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 28 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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