This is an analysis of Borrowed Time by Ingeborg Bachmann.

Harder days are coming.
The loan of borrowed time…

Browse poems by Ingeborg Bachmann

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AbCdeXfXXbC fXggXXd fdeXXXA
  • Stanza lengths: 11,7,7,
  • Metre: 101110 010111 00110010 1111111 110110011 101001 111001 101010100 111101 010111 00110010 1111101 010100101 0101 00100010 0010110 110011 1010001 1101 1111 1101 1010001 110100 101110
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

it, her

Anaphora

it