At the Cementary
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
Rotten stone towers sultrily warmed.
Yellow haze of incense hovers.
Bees hum chaotically swarmed
And the flower trellises shake.
Slowly a breath stirs there
By the sun-still walls,
Dwindles glimmering, like a deceit -
Songs for the dead deeply shiver away.
Long it listens after in the green,
Lets the bushes shine brighter;
Brown swarms of mosquitoes spray
Over old tombstones
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | A X A X X X X B X X B X |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 374 |
Words | 63 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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