Analysis of From the Still Days
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
So ghostly are these late days
Just like the look of sick people, sent here
In the light. However, the night shades the muted lament
Of their eyes, toward which they already turn.
They probably smile and recall their celebrations,
How one is moved after songs, half forgotten,
And searches words for a sad gesture,
Which already grows pale in silence unmeasured.
So the sun still plays around ill flowers
And lets them shiver in the thin, clear airs
With a death-cool delight.
The red forests whisper and darken,
And more death-nightly the woodpeckers' hammering echoes
Just like a reverberation from airless crypts.
Scheme | X X A X X B X A X X X B X X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111 1101111011 0011001101001 11101110101 11001011010 11111011010 010110110 1010110101 1011101110 0111000111 101101 011010010 0111001010010 11000101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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