Analysis of I can't break the code
Leonard Cohen 1934 (Westmount) – 2016 (Los Angeles, California)
I can't break the code
Of our frozen love
It’s too late to know
What the password was
I reach for the past
Keep coming up short
And everything feels Like a last resort
Tho' we’ve called it quits
And there’s nothing left
Still I hear my lips
Make these promises
Though we've squandered the truth
And there’s little left
We can still sweep the room
We can still make the bed
When the world is false
I won't say it’s true
When the darkness calls
I will go with you
In a time of shame
In the great Alarm
When they call your name
We’ll go arm in arm
Scheme | X XXX XAA XBXX XBXX XCXC DEDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 110101 11111 1011 11101 11011 010110101 11111 01101 11111 11100 111001 01101 111101 111101 10111 11111 10101 11111 00111 00101 11111 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 534 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 61 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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