Analysis of Night Song
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
Over nocturnal dark floods
I sing my sad songs,
Songs which bleed like wounds.
However, no heart carries them to me again
Through the darkness.
Only the nocturnal dark floods
Rush, sob my songs,
Songs which bleed from wounds,
They carry them to my heart again
Through the darkness.
| Scheme | abcdE abcdE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 1001011 11111 11111 10111011101 1010 10001011 1111 11111 110111101 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 288 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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