Analysis of The Elegy
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
The girlfriend juggling with green flowers
Plays in moony gardens -
O! what glows behind yew hedges!
Golden mouth which stirs my lips,
And they ring out like the stars
Over the brook Kidron.
But the star-nebulas sink over the plain,
Dance wildly and unspeakably.
O! my girlfriend your lips
Ripen on my crystalline mouth of shells.
Heavily the golden silence
Of the plain rests on us.
The blood of the children
Murdered by Herod
Steams to heaven.
| Scheme | X X X A X B B X A X X X B X B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011001110 10110 11101110 1011111 0111101 10011 101111001 11001 11111 101110111 10001010 101111 011010 10110 1110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 455 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 15 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 24 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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