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.


Scheme X X X A B B X A X X X X
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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Georg Trakl

Georg Trakl was an Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists. more…

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