Analysis of To The Silenced

Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)



Oh, the great city's madness when at nightfall
The crippled trees gape by the blackened wall,
The spirit of evil peers from a silver mask;
Lights with magnetic scourge drive off the stony night.
Oh, the sunken pealing of evening bells.

Whore who in her icy shivers sheds a still-born child.
With raving whips God's fury punishes brows possessed.
Purple pestilence, hunger that breaks green eyes.
Oh, the horrible laughter of gold.

But silent in dark caves a stiller humanity bleeds,
Out of hard metals moulds the redeeming head.


Scheme AAXXX XXXX XX
Poetic Form
Metre 1011010111 0101110101 010110110101 110101110101 101011101 1100101010111 1101110100101 10100101111 101001011 11001101001001 11110100101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 526
Words 91
Sentences 8
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 2
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 141
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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