Analysis of The Mood of Depression

Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)



You dark mouth inside me,
You are strong , shape
Composed of autumn cloud,
And golden evening stillness;
In the shadows thrown
By the broken pine trees
A mountain stream turns dark in the green light;
A little town
That piously dies away into brown pictures.
Now the black horses rear
In the foggy pasture.
I think of soldiers!
Down the hill, where the dying sun lumbers,
The laughing blood plunges,
Speechless
Under the oak trees! Oh the hopeless depression
Of an army; a blazing steel helmet
Fell with a clatter from purpled foreheads.
The autumn night comes down so coolly.
With her white habit glittering like the stars
Over the broken human bodies
The convent nurse is silent


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Poetic Form
Metre 111011 1111 011101 0101010 0011 101011 0101110011 0101 110010101110 101101 001010 11110 101101011 010110 10 100111010010 1110010110 11010111 010111110 10110100101 100101010 0101110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 681
Words 120
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 22
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 547
Words per stanza (avg) 119
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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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