Analysis of My lady can sleep
Leonard Cohen 1934 (Westmount) – 2016 (Los Angeles, California)
My lady can sleep
Upon a handkerchief
Or if it be Fall
Upon a fallen leaf.
I have seen the hunters
kneel before her hem
Even in her sleep
She turns away from them.
The only gift they offer
Is their abiding grief
I pull out my pockets
For a handkerchief or leaf.
Scheme | ABCDEFAFGDHD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 010100 11111 010101 111010 10101 10001 110111 0101110 110101 111110 1010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 250 |
Words | 53 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 206 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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