Analysis of Encounter
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
The stranger on the way - we look at each other
And our tired eyes ask:
What have you done with your life?
Be silent! Be silent! Leave all laments!
Already it becomes cooler around us,
The clouds dissolve in the vastnesses.
I think we shall ask more no longer
And nobody will escort us to the night.
| Scheme | A X X B X B A X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010101111110 0101011 1111111 1101101101 01010110011 0101001 111111110 011011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 300 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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