Analysis of Untitled: O the Dwelling
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
O the dwelling in the stillness of the dusking garden,
When the eyes of the sister round and dark opened in the brother,
The purple of their broken mouths
Melted in the coolness of the evening.
September ripened the golden pear. Sweetness of incense
And the dahlia burns at the old fence
Say! where were we, when we passed by on small black boat
In the evening,
The crane passed over. The freezing arms
Held black embraced, and inside blood ran.
And around our temples moist blue. Poor little child.
Deeply a dark race ponders out of knowing eyes.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010001010110 1011010101100010 01011101 1000101010 01010010110101 001011011 110111111111 0010 011100101 110100111 0011010111101 100111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 564 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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