Analysis of 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


Scheme A X A X X X X B X X B X
Poetic Form
Metre 1011011 10110110 1111 001011 100111 10111 101001001 1101101001 111010001 1010110 1110101 1011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 374
Words 63
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) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 26
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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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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