Analysis of Towards Evening, My Heart
Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)
Towards Evening, My Heart
The screeching of bats at evening.
Two horses lope in the meadow.
The red maple shivers.
To the wanderer, a small tavern appears in the distance.
It is good to taste young wine and nuts.
It is good: to lurch, drunken, into the dawning woods.
Tolling, through the black tangle, the dolorous bells.
Dew drops on the face.
Translated by Eric Plattner
Zu Abend mein Herz
Am Abend hört man den Schrei der Fledermäuse.
Zwei Rappen springen auf der Wiese.
Der rote Ahorn rauscht.
Dem Wanderer erscheint die kleine Schenke am Weg.
Herrlich schmecken junger Wein und Nüsse.
Herrlich: betrunken zu taumeln in dämmernden Wald.
Durch schwarzes Geäst tönen schmerzliche Glocken.
Auf das Gesicht tropft Tau.
| Scheme | A BXCXXXXX X C XXABCXXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011011 01011110 1101001 011010 101000110010010 111111101 1111110010101 1010110011 11101 01011010 11011 11011111111 111111 1111 1100111111 11101111 11110111 11111111 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 787 |
| Words | 123 |
| Sentences | 17 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 1, 1, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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