Analysis of Winter Evening
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
When snow falls against the window,
Long sounds the evening bell...
For so many has the table
Been prepared, the house set in order.
From their wandering, many
Come on dark paths to this gateway.
The tree of grace is flowering in gold
Out of the cool sap of the earth.
In stillness, wanderer, step in:
Grief has worn the threshold into stone.
But see: in pure light, glowing
There on the table: bread and wine.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101010 110101 11101010 101011010 1110010 1111111 0111110001 11011101 01010010 11101011 1101110 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 409 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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