Analysis of December
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
At evening jugglers travel through the forest
On quaint wagons, small steeds.
A golden stash seems locked in clouds.
In the white plain villages are painted.
The wind swings shield and billet black and cold.
A raven follows the morose comrades.
From the sky a ray falls on bloody gutters
And placidly a funeral procession pilgrimages to the cemetery.
The shepherd's hut dwindles nearby in the gray,
In the pond a brilliance of old treasures glistens;
The farmers sit down in the tavern for wine.
A boy glides shyly to a woman.
One still sees the sexton in the vestry
And reddish utensils, beautiful and dim.
Scheme | X A X X X X X B X A X X B X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110100101010 111011 01011101 0011100110 0111010101 010100011 10101111010 01000100010100010100 01011011001 00101011101 01011001011 011101010 111010001 01001010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 602 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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