Analysis of Hohenburg

Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)



The house is empty. Fall in the room.
The moon’s lone glow
and a birth at the edge of the dawning woods.

Forever your thoughts turn to the ashen face of your people,
removed from the bedlam of time.
Over the dreamer green branches bend eagerly,

cross and evening.
With bruised arms his star envelops the Song of Songs.
Towards the unpeopled window it ascends.

Thus the stranger shudders in blackness,
as his eyelids gently recede over
the far-off one. The silver voice of the wind in the hallway.

Translated by Eric Plattner

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Hohenburg

Es ist niemand im Haus. Herbst in Zimmern;
Mondeshelle Sonate
Und das Erwachen am Saum des dämmernden Walds.

Immer denkst du das weiße Antlitz des Menschen
Ferne dem Getümmel der Zeit;
Über ein Träumendes neigt sich gerne grünes Gezweig,

Kreuz und Abend;
Umfängt den Tönenden mit purpurnen Armen sein Stern,
Der zu unbewohnten Fenstern hinaufsteigt.

Also zittert im Dunkel der Fremdling,
Da er leise die Lider über ein Menschliches aufhebt,
Das ferne ist; die Silberstimme des Windes im Hausflur.  


Scheme XXA XXX BXX XCX C B DEA DEB EDE BEC
Poetic Form
Metre 011101001 0111 00110110101 010111101011110 01101011 100101101100 1010 111110100111 010110101 101010010 111100110 01110101101001 01011010 1 11 11111101 11 111111111 111111111 111111 1111111111 1110 1111111111011 11111 10111011 101111111 111111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,118
Words 178
Sentences 14
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 83
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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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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