Analysis of In Darkness
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
In blue spring the soul falls silent.
Under dripping branches the evening
lovers bowed their foreheads and shivered.
O the corroding cross. In sunless communion
man and woman awoke to each other.
By the barren wall
the deserted one wanders with his shifting stars.
Over the moonstricken paths in the woods
the wilderness of forgotten hunts
sinks ever deeper. Your grief rises up
over the crumbling rock face in mutiny.
Translated by Eric Plattner
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Im Dunkel
Es schweigt die Seele den blauen Frühling.
Unter feuchtem Abendgezweig
Sank in Schauern die Stirne den Liebenden.
O das grünende Kreuz. In dunklem Gespräch
Erkannten sich Mann und Weib.
An kahler Mauer
Wandelt in seinen Gestirnen der Einsame.
Über die mondbeglänzten Wege des Walds
Sank die Wildnis
Vergessener Jagden; Blick der Bläue
Aus verfallenen Felsen bricht.
Scheme | ABX CDXE XXXX D X BBC XXDX EEXA |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (24%) |
Metre | 01101110 101010010 10111010 101101010 1010011110 10101 001011011101 10011001 010010101 1101011101 100100110100 01011010 1 1110 11111111 111 1011111 111110111 11111 11010 101111 1111111 111 111111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 908 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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