Analysis of In Wine Country
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
The sun paints courtyard and walls with autumn,
The fruit stacked in heaps all around,
Before them poor children cower.
A gust thins out old linden-trees.
Through the gate a golden shower rains
And the women blessed with child
Tiredly rest on rotten benches.
Drunkards swing glasses and jugs.
A hoodlum lets his fiddle sound
And smocks swell lustfully in the dance.
Roughly brown bodies embrace.
From windows empty eyes gaze.
Stench rises from the fountain's mirror.
And black, decayed, departed
The hills of vines dusk all around.
A migration of birds glides swiftly southwards.
Scheme | X A B C X X X X A X X X B X A C |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101110 01101101 01111010 01111101 101010101 0010111 1111010 1011001 01011101 0111001 1011001 1101011 11010110 0101010 01111101 0010111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 573 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 11 |
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) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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