Analysis of Justice

Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)



Huts of childhood are in autumn,

Decayed hamlet; dark shapes,

Singing mothers in the evening wind;

At windows Angelus and hands fold.

Still birth; on green ground

Mystery and stillness of blue flowers.

Insanity opens the purple mouth:

Dies irae - grave and stillness.

Groping along green thorns;

In the sleep: blood-vomit, hunger and laughter;

Fire in the village, awakening in the green;

Fear and swaying on gurgling boat.

Or in wooden staircase again

The white shadow of the strange woman leans.-

Poor sinner longing away in the blueness

Left his putrefaction behind for lilies and rats.


Scheme X X X X X X X A X X X X X X A X
Poetic Form
Metre 1111010 011011 101000101 1101011 11111 1000101110 0100100101 111010 100111 00111010010 1000100100001 101011001 1010101 011101101 11010010010 1110111001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 582
Words 100
Sentences 7
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) 30
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 30
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Georg Trakl

Georg Trakl was an Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists. more…

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