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