Analysis of On the Marshy Pastures
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
A man who walks in the black wind; the dry reeds
rustle quietly
Through the silence of the marshy pastures. In
the grey skies
A migration of wild birds move in ranks
Catty-corner over dark waters.
Insurgence. In the collapsing houses
Decay is fluttering out with black wings;
Crippled-up birches breathe heavily in the wind.
Evening in empty roadhouses. The longing for home
settles about
The delicate despair of the grazing flocks,
Vision of the night: toads plunge from silver waters.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110011011 10100 10101010100 011 0010111101 101010110 10001010 0111001111 10111100001 10010101011 1001 01000110101 101011111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 486 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 390 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 81 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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