Analysis of On The Eastern Front
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
The ominous anger of masses of men
Is like the wild organ of the winter storm,
The purple surge of battle,
Leafless stars.
With broken eyebrows and silver arms
The night waves to dying soldiers.
In the shade of the ash tree of autumn
The souls of the slain are sighing.
A thorny desert surrounds the city.
The moon chases the shocked women
From the bleeding stairways.
Wild wolves have broken through the door
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01001011011 11011010101 0101110 111 11010101 01111010 0011011110 01101110 0101001010 01100110 10101 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 420 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 332 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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