This is an analysis of Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye by Leonard Cohen.

I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,
your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcXc
  • Stanza lengths: 7,
  • Metre: 1110010110111 11010101010101 11010111111111 0101010111111 11010100110111 1111010 11110111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 7

Repeated words/phrases

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