Analysis of Confiteor
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
The colored pictures which life paints,
I see them gloomily only by twilights,
Like frizzy distorted shadows, cloudy and cold,
Hardly born, already defeated by death.
And since the mask fell from every thing,
I see only fear, desperation, disgrace and plagues,
Mankind's heroless tragedy,
A bad play, staged on graves, corpses.
This terrible dream-view disgusts me.
But a higher authority wants me to stay,
A comedian who speaks his role,
Coerced, full of desperation - boredom!
Scheme | A A X X X X B X B X X X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010111 1111001011 1101011001 10101001011 0101111001 111010100101 111100 01111110 110011011 101001001111 001001111 011101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 475 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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