This is an analysis of Nothing Twice by Wislawa Szymborska.
Nothing can ever happen twice.
In consequence, the sorry fact is…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXa cXca Xbdb efef dgdg dXdX hihi X
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Metre: 10110101 010001010 11011101 110101010 100101110 01010101 110101010 01010101 1110101 11101110 0010011 00100110 11011101 10111100 11100101 00011111 01111101 11110101 01011110 00010101 11110101 011101110 00010101 010111011 01110101 01010111 111100101 11110101 010111001101100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 29
Anaphora
no