Analysis of Untitled: The stillness of the deceased loves the old garden,
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
The stillness of the deceased loves the old garden,
The madwoman who dwelled in blue rooms,
In the evening the still shape appears in the window
She, however, closes the yellowed curtain -
The trickling of the glass beads reminded of our childhood,
At night we found a black moon in the forest
The soft sonata sounds in a mirror's blueness
Her smile glides over the dying one's mouth.
| Scheme | A X X A X X X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010100110110 0111011 0010011010010 110100110 01010110101101 11110110010 010101001010 0111001011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 398 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 25, 2023
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