Analysis of Descent and Defeat
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
To Karl Borromaus Heinrich
Over the white fishpond
The wild birds have blown away.
An icy wind drifts from our stars at evening.
Over our graves
The broken forehead of the night is bending.
Under the oaks we veer in a silver skiff.
The white walls of the city are always giving off
sound.
Under arching thorns
O my brother blind minute-hands we are climbing
toward midnight
Scheme | X AXBXBXXAXBA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 10011 0111101 110111101110 10101 01010101110 10011100101 011101011101 1 10101 111011011110 011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 376 |
Words | 70 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 11 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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