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Encounter

Georg Trakl

The stranger on the way - we look at each other

And our tired eyes ask:

What have you done with your life?

Be silent! Be silent! Leave all laments!

Already it becomes cooler around us,

The clouds dissolve in the vastnesses.

I think we shall ask more no longer

And nobody will escort us to the night.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme A X X B X B A X
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 300
Words 60
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
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