The Elegy
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
The girlfriend juggling with green flowers
Plays in moony gardens -
O! what glows behind yew hedges!
Golden mouth which stirs my lips,
And they ring out like the stars
Over the brook Kidron.
But the star-nebulas sink over the plain,
Dance wildly and unspeakably.
O! my girlfriend your lips
Pomegranate lips
Ripen on my crystalline mouth of shells.
Heavily the golden silence
Of the plain rests on us.
The blood of the children
Murdered by Herod
Steams to heaven.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | X X X A X B B X A X X X B X B |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 455 |
Words | 82 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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