Analysis of Childhood Memory
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
The sun shines alone in the afternoon,
And quietly the tone of the honey-bees wavers off.
In the garden the sisters' voices whisper -
There the boy listens in the wooden shed,
Still fevering over book and picture.
Weary the linden-trees wilt immersed in the blue.
A heron hangs motionless drowned in the ether,
By the fence fantastic shadow-shapes play.
The sisters go quietly into the house,
And soon their white clothes glimmer
Vaguely from bright rooms,
And confused the bushes' bluster dies down.
The boy strokes the cat's hair,
Bewitched by the mirror of her eyes.
An organ-sound far away on the hill
Lifts wonderfully into heaven.
Scheme | X X A X A X A X X A X X X X X X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011010001 0100011010111 00100101010 1011000101 11101010 100101101001 010110010010 101010111 01011000101 0111110 10111 0010101011 011011 011010101 1101101101 110000110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 629 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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