Analysis of Untitled: The Blue Night
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
The blue night has softly risen on our foreheads.
Quietly our putrid hands touch
Our countenance became pale, moony pearls
Melted in green pond-ground.
Petrified ones, we contemplate our stars.
O painful! Culprits wander in the garden
The shadows in wild embrace,
So that tree and animal sank about them in immense anger.
Soft harmonies, when we ride
through the still night in crystalline waves
A rosy angel steps from the graves of the lovers.
| Scheme | X X X X X X X X X X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011110101101 100101011 1010001111 100111 101110101 11010100010 010101 1110100101100110 1100111 10110101 0101011011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 455 |
| Words | 79 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 11 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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