Analysis of The Sun

Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)



Each day the yellow sun rises over the hill.
The woods glow, the dark beast,
Man: hunter or shepherd.

Blood-fish surface in the teeming pond.
Under the dome of heaven
the fisherman drifts in his blue boat.

The grapes ripen slowly, the corn.
When day slumps to a close,
Good and Evil are poised.

Night falls.
The wanderer lifts his heavy eyelids.
The sun breaks from the dark ditch.

Translated by Eric Plattner

D ie Sonne

Täglich kommt die gelbe Sonne über den Hügel.
Schön ist der Wald, das dunkle Tier,
Der Mensch; Jäger oder Hirt.

Rötlich steigt im grünen Weiher der Fisch.
Unter dem runden Himmel
Fährt der Fischer leise im blauen Kahn.

Langsam reift die Traube, das Korn.
Wenn sich stille der Tag neigt,
Ist ein Gutes und Böses bereitet.

Wenn es Nacht wird,
Hebt der Wanderer leise die schweren Lider;
Sonne aus finsterer Schlucht bricht.  


Scheme XAX XXX BXX XXX C D XXX XXD BAA ACA
Poetic Form
Metre 110101101001 011011 110110 111000101 1001110 01010111 01101001 111101 101011 11 010011101 0111011 01011010 111 1111111111 111111101 1111101 1111111011 11110 111101111 1011111 111111 1111111 1111 111001111 11111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 914
Words 153
Sentences 17
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 26
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 66
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 10, 2023

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Georg Trakl

Georg Trakl was an Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists. more…

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