Analysis of Untitled :Rosy Mirror
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
Rosy mirror: an ugly image
That appears in the black background,
Blood weeps from broken eyes
Blaspheming plays with dead snakes.
Snow runs through the staring shirt
Purple over the black face,
That breaks in heavy pieces
From planets, deceased and strange.
A spider appears in the black background
Lust, your countenance deceased and strange.
Blood runs through the staring shirt
Snow weeps from broken eyes.
| Scheme | X A B X C X X D A D C B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101011010 1010011 111101 11111 1110101 1010011 1101010 1100101 010010011 111000101 1110101 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 406 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 12 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 28 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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