Analysis of To Johnanna
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
Often I hear your steps
Ring through the alley.
In the small brown garden
The blueness of your shadow.
In the dawning bower
I sat in silence with the wine.
A dropp of blood
Sank from your temple
Into the singing glass
Hour of unending gloom.
From stars a snowy wind
Blows through the foliage.
Any death, the night
The pale man suffers.
Your purple mouth
Dwells a wound in me.
As if I came from the green
Fir hills and legends
Of our homeland,
Which we long forgot -
Who are we? Blue lament
Of a mossy forest spring,
Where the violets
Secretly scent in spring.
A peaceful village in summer
Once sheltered the childhood
Of our race,
Dying off now at the evening-
Hill the white grandchildren
We dream the terror
Of our nightly blood
Shadows in stony city.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111 11010 001110 010111 001010 11010101 0111 11110 010101 1010101 110101 11010 10101 01110 1101 10101 1111101 11010 1101 11101 111101 101101 10100 100101 01010010 11001 1101 10111010 10110 11010 110101 101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 730 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 32 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 19 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 4 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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