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.


Scheme XXXX XXXX XXXA AXXA
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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Georg Trakl

Georg Trakl was an Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists. more…

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