Analysis of Mourning
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
The dark eagles, sleep and death,
Rustle all night around my head:
The golden statue of man
Is swallowed by the icy comber
Of eternity. On the frightening reef
The purple remains go to pieces,
And the dark voice mourns
Over the sea.
Sister in my wild despair
Look, a precarious skiff is sinking
Under the stars,
The face of night whose voice is fading.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKJ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0110101 10110111 010111 110101010 10100101001 010011110 00111 1001 1001101 1001001110 1001 011111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 357 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 279 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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