Analysis of Die Sunflowers
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
You golden sunflowers,
Tenderly inclined toward death,
You sisters full of humility
In such stillness
Of mountainous coolness ends.
Then his drunken forehead
Pales from kisses
Amid those golden
Flowers of gloom
The spirit is determined
By silent sinisterness.
| Scheme | A X X X X X X X X X A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010 10001011 110110100 0110 1100101 111010 1110 01110 1011 0101010 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 270 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 11 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 20 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 4 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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