Analysis of The Fall of the Deserted
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
The Fall of the Deserted
The dark fall swells with fruit and abundance,
the yellowed glare of garish summer days.
A pure blueness steps from the ruined husk.
Shadows flap from the ancient myth.
The wine is pressed, benign silence
fraught with the whispered reply to murkier questions.
And here and there a cross on a barren hill.
In the red woods a flock loses itself.
The cloud wanders into the pond’s mirror.
A peasant’s stormless gesture is put to rest.
Below one’s breath the evening wings of grief stir
the dry reeds of our rooftop, the black earth.
Before long the stars will nestle in his weary brow.
In the chilled room a mute humility turns back
and angels tread softly from the blue
eyes of lovers, that more gentle ache.
Reeds hiss. A bone-ridden horror dawns.
Black dew drips from the shaven fields.
Translated by Eric Plattner
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Der Herbst des Einsamen
Der dunkle Herbst kehrt ein voll Frucht und Fülle,
Vergilbter Glanz von schönen Sommertagen.
Ein reines Blau tritt aus verfallener Hülle;
Der Flug der Vögel tönt von alten Sagen.
Gekeltert ist der Wein, die milde Stille
Erfüllt von leiser Antwort dunkler Fragen.
Und hier und dort ein Kreuz auf ödem Hügel;
Im roten Wald verliert sich eine Herde.
Die Wolke wandert übern Weiherspiegel;
Es ruht des Landmanns ruhige Geberde.
Sehr leise rührt des Abends blauer Flügel
Ein Dach von dürrem Stroh, die schwarze Erde.
Bald nisten Sterne in des Müden Brauen;
In kühle Stuben kehrt ein still Bescheiden
Und Engel treten leise aus den blauen
Augen der Liebenden, die sanfter leiden.
Es rauscht das Rohr; anfällt ein knöchern Grauen,
Wenn schwarz der Tau tropft von den kahlen Weiden.
Scheme | A BXXXBX CXDXDX XXXXXX D E CECECE FACAFA EEEEEE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (23%) |
Metre | 0110010 0111110010 011110101 0110110101 1110101 01110110 1101001110010 01010110101 0011011001 0110010110 0101101111 01110101111 0111101011 0110111001101 001101010011 010110101 111011101 110110101 11110101 01011010 1 1111 11011111111 111111 11111111 11111111110 1111111 11110111 11011111111 11011111 11111 111111 111111111 111111111 11101111 01111111 11011111 111111 1111111111 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,708 |
Words | 284 |
Sentences | 23 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6, 6, 2, 1, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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