Analysis of Blood Guilt
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
Night threatens at the bed of our kisses.
Somewhere a whisper: who absolves your guilt?
Still trembling from the sweetness of nefarious lust
We pray: forgive us, Mary, in your mercy.
Out of flower vases greedy scents climb,
Wheedling our foreheads pale with guilt.
Exhausting under the waft of sultry air
We dream: forgive us, Mary, in your mercy.
But the well of the sirens rushes louder,
And the sphinx rises darker before our guilt,
So that our hearts sound again more sinfully,
We sob: forgive us, Mary, in your mercy.
Scheme | X A X B X A X B X A X B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111010 101010111 11001010101001 11011100110 1110101011 1101111 01010011101 11011100110 10110101010 001101001101 1110110111 11011100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 519 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 7 |
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) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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