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 |
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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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