Analysis of Melancholy
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
The blue soul has mutely closed,
In the open window the brown forest sinks,
The stillness of dark animals; in the valley
The mill grinds, by the footbridge clouds rest outpoured,
The golden strangers. A procession of steeds
Gallops red in the village. The garden brown and cold.
The aster freezes, so delicately painted on the fence
The sunflower's gold almost flown away.
The stumpets' voices; dew is poured out
On the hard grass and stars white and cold.
See death painted in the dear shadow,
Every countenance full of tears and closed.
Scheme | A X X A X B X X X B X A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111 00101001101 010111000010 011101111 01010001011 110010010101 010101100010101 0111101 01101111 101101101 11100011 10010011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 535 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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