This is an analysis of The End And The Beginning by Wislawa Szymborska.

After every war
someone has to clean up.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcd defg effgf XdXa cfca Xfeb effeXcd fXgd XaaddX XgcXf
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,5,4,4,4,7,4,6,5,
  • Metre: 101001 111011 11 10011101 11101010 001001 101110 11 111011 01110 1001 101 1101 111010010 01101 11101010 1001 101001 110 1010011 10101 110101 111110 10110 01001 11101 1010101 11110 11010001 101011111 100101 10101 010010 0111110 101100 110000101 111 111011 1111 11110 11110 1100110110 00111101 10101 111011 101001 10101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 10
  • Lines: 47

Repeated words/phrases

to, and

Anaphora

and

Epiphora

little