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
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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
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Submitted by RobertHaigh on August 01, 2020
Modified on April 26, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXA BBA CCD XXD XEXE |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 472 |
Words | 97 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 4 |
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