Analysis of Sicily Café
Leonard Cohen 1934 (Westmount) – 2016 (Los Angeles, California)
And now that I kneel
At the edge of my years
Let me fall through the mirror of love
And the things that I know
Let them drift like the snow
Let me dwell in the light that's above
In the radiant light
Where there’s day and there's night
And truth is the widest embrace
That includes what is lost
Includes what is found
What you write and what you erase
And when will my heart break open
When will my love be born
In this scheme of unspeakable suffering
Where even the blueprint is torn
Scheme | XXA BBA CCD XXD XEXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111 101111 111101011 001111 111101 111001101 001001 111011 01101001 101111 01111 11101101 01111110 111111 01110100100 1100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 472 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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