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 |
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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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