Analysis of Summer Sonata
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
Rotten fruits smell stunning.
Bushes and trees sound sunnily,
Swarms of black flies sing
On the brown forest glade.
In the pool's deep blueness
The light of weed-fires blazes.
Hear sudden love cries whirring
From yellow flower walls.
Butterflies chase themselves for a long time;
Drunkenly my shadow dances
On sultry meadows of thyme.
Brightly ecstacized blackbirds trill.
Clouds show stiff breasts,
And wreathed by foliage and berries
Under dark pines you see
A skeleton play the violin grinning.
Scheme | A B A X X X A X C X C B X X X A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101110 100111 11111 101101 001110 01111010 1101110 110101 101011011 11110 110111 101101 1111 01110010 101111 01001000110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 490 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 25 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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