Analysis of Winter Walk in A-Minor
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
Red spheres often emerge from branches,
Snowed under softly and black by a long snowfall.
The priest escorts the dead person.
The nights are fulfilled by celebrations of masks.
Then tousled crows glide over the village;
In books fairy tales are written miraculously.
At the window an old man's hair flutters.
Demons go through the ill soul.
The well freezes in the courtyard. Decayed stairs fall
In the darkness and a wind blows
Through old shafts which are buried.
The palate tastes the frost's strong spices.
Scheme | A X X X X X X X X X X A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111001110 110100110110 01100110 01101101011 111110010 0110111001000 1010111110 1011011 01100010111 00100011 1111110 010101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 507 |
Words | 88 |
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) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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