Analysis of Cohen Is Going
His sound’s no longer what it used to be
colors vanished, drowned in misery,
his tone’s now mat, just like the wetted grass,
on which the wind won’t spread its whispering
but drudgery, is tending to defeat.
The thud with which he thrusts his words
magnifies life’s suffering with swords,
muted the light that shines in his eyes
He pushes the day completely off balance
so he’ll soon disappear with darkness
| Scheme | AABCDEFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 1111011111 101010100 111111011 1101111100 1100110101 01111111 10110011 100111011 11001010110 11101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 407 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 324 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
About this poem
Written two years before singer songwriter Leonard Cohen died.
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