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.
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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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