Analysis of The Shadow
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
Since I sat in the garden this morning -
The trees stood abloom in blue,
Full of thrush calls and trills -
I saw my shadow in the grass,
Immensely distorted, a fantastical animal,
That lay before me like a bad dream.
And I left and trembled very much,
Meanwhile a fountain sang in the blueness
And a bud leapt purple
And the animal went alongside.
Scheme | X X A A B X X A B X |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1110010110 0110101 111101 1111001 01001001100 110111011 011010101 101010010 001110 001001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 346 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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