This is an analysis of Children Of Our Age by Wislawa Szymborska.

We are children of our age,
it's a political age.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aa bcc bbbb dXd cdc efXffd XfXe XdXf bgggee
  • Stanza lengths: 2,3,4,3,3,6,4,4,6,
  • Metre: 1110011 0001001 1111101 101111 1010001 1011011 111001001 11001001 11001001 110110101 1101111101 1101110101 10111001 11001001 101001 10100101100100 1011101 1101010 00110010010 110100010 00101110101 00100010010 111010010 1010001 1111111 101001011 1101011 11101111 101101011 111010 1001 101 10111 110110100 110100
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 9
  • Lines: 35

Repeated words/phrases

all, political, or

Anaphora

all, your, whatever, or

Epiphora

age