Borrowed Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGEHBC IJKLMNE OEEEE A| Harder days are coming | A |
| The loan of borrowed time | B |
| will be due on the horizon | C |
| Soon you must lace up your boots | D |
| and chase the hounds back to the marsh farms | E |
| For the entrails of fish | F |
| have grown cold in the wind | G |
| Dimly burns the light of lupines | E |
| Your gaze makes out in fog | H |
| the loan of borrowed time | B |
| will be due on the horizon | C |
| - | |
| There your loved one sinks in sand | I |
| it rises up to her windblown hair | J |
| it cuts her short | K |
| it commands her to be silent | L |
| it discovers she's mortal | M |
| and willing to leave you | N |
| after every embrace | E |
| - | |
| Don't look around | O |
| Lace up your boots | E |
| Chase back the hounds | E |
| Throw the fish into the sea | E |
| Put out the lupines | E |
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| Harder days are coming | A |
Ingeborg Bachmann
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