Analysis of Decay
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
A wind is blowing! The green lights
Sing extinguished - large and satiated
The moon fulfils the high hall,
Where no more celebrations sound through.
The ancestral portraits quietly smile
And far-off - their last shadow fell,
The room is sultry with putrefaction,
Arround which ravens mutely move in circles.
A lost sense of past times
Looks from the stony masks,
Pain distorted and empty of existence
Mourning in abandonments.
Sick smells of sunken gardens
Quietly caress the decay -
Like the echo of sobbing words
Quivering over open crypts.
| Scheme | X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01110011 1010101 011011 11101011 0010101001 0111111 0111011 111011010 011111 110101 10100101010 1000100 1111010 10001001 10101101 10010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 535 |
| Words | 92 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| 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) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 28 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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