Analysis of Dusk

Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)



You are rumpled, distorted by every pain
And shake with the discord of all melodies,
You burst harp - a poor heart,
From which gloom's sick flowers bloom.

Who has ordered the enemy, the murderer for you,
That stole the last spark of your soul,
How he makes this scanty world godless
To a whore, ugly, ill, pale with putrefaction!

From shadows a wild dance still swings
To frizzily ruptured, soulless sound,
A round dance around beauty's thorn wreath,

Which witheringly crowns the lost winner,
- A bad trophy for that fought desperation,
And that does not reconcile the bright divinity.


Scheme AXXX XXXA XXX XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 111001011001 01101011100 111011 1111101 11100100010011 11011111 111110110 101101111 1101111 1110101 01101111 1110110 0110111010 011110010100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 590
Words 103
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 116
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Georg Trakl

Georg Trakl was an Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists. more…

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