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
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKIDLDMNOAPFQ |
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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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