Analysis of Season
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
Ruby-veins crept into the foliage.
Then the pond was calm and wide.
By the forest's edge brightly scattered
Bluish speckles and brown dust lay.
A fisherman drew in his nets.
Then dusk came over the field.
But, a yard shined still palely illuminated
And maids brought fruit and wine.
Distantly a shepherd's song died after.
Then huts stood bleak and strange.
The forest in gray shroud
Evoked sad memory.
And overnight time became quiet
And an army of ravens flew
As if in black holes in the forest and moved
Toward the town's very distant ringing.
Scheme | X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101010 1011101 101011010 1010111 0101011 1111001 1011110100 011101 10101110 111101 010011 011100 010110110 01101101 11011001001 0101101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 539 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 11 |
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) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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