<hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" style="font-size:12pt" xml:space="preserve">It is hard to translate automatically without having information about the sentence boundaries and the punctuation as a discourse unit for meaning demarcation. But to what extent punctuation information has to be recovered for the translation of post-modern poetry? Which kind of information do we need to improve machine translation? Do the questions have to be distinguished from the statements? Or is the simple marking of phrase boundaries already sufficient? To answer these questions, we analysed unpunctuated German poems. There are 234 german-speaking poets on the </hi><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic" style="font-size:12pt">lyrikline</hi><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" style="font-size:12pt" xml:space="preserve"> webpage reading a total of 2591 poems. A total of 733 German poems are translated to English which are used in this work. There are 98 German poems which do not contain any punctuation information. We analysed 120 poems in this work with a maximal punctuation information ratio of 0.05%. This process yields a total of 2924 lines out of which only 28 (0.009%) with punctuation information.</hi>