Analysis of In the Evening

Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)



A blue brook, path and evening along decayed huts.

Behind dark shrubbery children play with blue and red balls;

Some swap the forehead and the hands rot in the brown foliage.

In bony stillness the heart of the lonely one shines,

A small boat rocks on blackish waters.

Through dark woods hair and laughter of brown maids flutters.

The shadows of the old people cross the flight of a small bird;

Mystery of blue flowers on their temples.

Others sway on black benches in the evening wind.

Golden sighs quietly expire in the bleak branches

Of the chestnut; a sound of dark cymbals of summer,

When the strangeress appears on the decayed staircase.


Scheme X X X X A A X X X X X X
Poetic Form
Metre 011101001011 01110010111011 11010001100110 0101001101011 01111110 111101011110 01101101011011 10011101110 101111000101 1011000100110 101011110110 1010110011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 639
Words 115
Sentences 8
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 43
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 43
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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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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