Analysis of Nature Theater
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
Now I step through the slender gate!
Promiscuous step in the avenues
Drifts away and quiet waft of words
From people, passersby.
I stand before a green stage!
Begin, begin again, you play
Of lost days, without crime and punishment,
Ghostly only, strange and cool!
To the melody of the early days
I see myself going up there again,
A child whose quiet, forgotten lament
I see weeping, strange to my understanding.
You wondering face turned to the evening,
Was I once this, that now makes me weep,
Like your still unfinished gestures
That point to the night mutely and shuddering.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 10010010 101010111 110100 1101011 01010111 1110110100 1010101 1010010101 111101101 0111001001 1110111010 1100111010 111111111 11101010 1110110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 581 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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