This is an analysis of Suzanne by Leonard Cohen.

Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
You can hear the boats go by…

Browse poems by Leonard Cohen

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXXXXaaXaaabXb
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 011110011010 1110111 11101010 11111110 11111001 111111100 11101010 11111010 11111010 11111011 11101010 11110010 11101000 1110101 11111011 11100110011
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

you, and, her

Anaphora

you, and

Epiphora

her