Analysis of December Sonnet
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
At evening jugglers travel through the forest
On quaint wagons, small steeds.
A golden stash seems locked in clouds.
In the dark plain villages are painted.
The red wind billows linen black and cold.
A dog rots, a shrub smokes blood-doused.
The reed is flown through by yellow horror
And placidly a funeral procession pilgrimages to the cemetery.
The old man's hut dwindles nearby in the gray,
In the pond a brilliance of old treasures glistens;
The farmers sit down in the tavern for wine.
A boy glides shyly to a woman.
A monk fades in the darkness soft and dark.
A bleak tree is a sleeper's sexton.
Scheme | X A X X X X X X X A X B X B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110100101010 111011 01011101 0011100110 0111010101 01101111 0111111010 01000100010100010100 01111011001 00101011101 01011001011 011101010 0110010101 01110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 596 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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