Analysis of For Anne
Leonard Cohen 1934 (Westmount) – 2016 (Los Angeles, California)
With Annie gone,
whose eyes to compare
with the morning sun?
Not that I did compare,
But I do compare
Now that she's gone.
Scheme | ABX BBA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 11101 10101 111101 11101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 117 |
Words | 24 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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