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…
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
