Analysis of De Profundis
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
There is a stubble field on which a black rain falls.
There is a tree which, brown, stands lonely here.
There is a hissing wind which haunts deserted huts---
How sad this evening.
Past the village pond
The gentle orphan still gathers scanty ears of corn.
Golden and round her eyes are gazing in the dusk
And her lap awaits the heavenly bridegroom.
Returning home
Shepherds found the sweet body
Decayed in the bramble bush.
A shade I am remote from sombre hamlets.
The silence of God
I drank from the woodland well.
On my forehead cold metal forms.
Spiders look for my heart.
There is a light that fails in my mouth.
At night I found myself upon a heath,
Thick with garbage and the dust of stars.
In the hazel copse
Crystal angels have sounded once more.
Translated by Jurek Kirakowski
Scheme | AXBC XXXX XXX BXX XXX XXAX C |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101110111 1101111101 110101110101 11110 10101 0101011010111 100101110001 0010101001 0101 1010110 0100101 0111011110 01011 111011 11101101 101111 110111011 111110101 111000111 00101 101011011 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 792 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3, 3, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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