Analysis of Body of Loneliness
Leonard Cohen 1934 (Westmount) – 2016 (Los Angeles, California)
She entered my foot with her foot
and she entered my waist with her snow.
She entered my heart saying,
"Yes, that's right."
And so the Body of Loneliness
was covered from without,
and from within
the Body of Loneliness was embraced.
Now every time I try to draw a breath
she whispers to my breathlessness,
"Yes, my love, that's right, that's right."
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIED |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 011011101 1101110 111 010101100 110101 0101 0101100101 11001111101 110111 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 359 |
Words | 67 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 285 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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