Analysis of On the Death of an Old Woman
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
Often I listen full of horror at the door
And when I arrive it seems to me that someone fled,
And her eyes see past me
Dreamily, as if they would see me elsewhere.
Thus she sits completely stooped in herself and listens
And seems far-off from the things around her,
However, she trembles when noise rushes at the window,
And then cries still, just like an anxious child.
And caresses her white hair with tired hand
And asks with paled glance: Must I go already?
And has a crazy fever: The little light in the altar
Went out! Where do you go? What has happened?
Scheme | X X A X X B X X X A B X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101110101 011011111111 001111 11111111 1110101001010 0111101010 101111101010 0111111101 00100111101 01111111010 010101001010010 1111111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 557 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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