Analysis of In the Spring
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
In the Spring
Your black footsteps whisper into the snow.
In the shadows of trees
your rosy eyelids flutter out of love.
Forever follow the dark calls of the mariner,
the night and the stars.
And the oars pulse faintly.
Before long the violets bloom
by the crumbling wall.
The temple of the deserted corrodes in their silence.
Translated by Eric Plattner
Leise sank von dunklen Schritten der Schnee,
Im Schatten des Baums
Heben die rosigen Lider Liebende.
Immer folgt den dunklen Rufen der Schiffer
Stern und Nacht;
Und die Ruder schlagen leise im Takt.
Balde an verfallener Mauer blühen
Die Veilchen,
Ergrünt so stille die Schläfe des Einsamen.
Scheme | X ABX CXD XXX C DBE CEE XAA |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 001 111100101 00111 110110111 0101001110100 01001 001110 01101001 101001 01010010010110 01011010 1111111 1111 11111 11111110 111 11101111 1111011 11 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 726 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 3, 3, 1, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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