Analysis of The Worst Way to Fall
Climbing upward,
only knowing the way is up,
she goes, counting the seconds,
trusting her muscles, her truth.
The girl makes the mistake
of looking downward,
seeing far below,
people watching her.
The ones on the ground
eye her with such strangeness,
and she is drawn to the mystery
shrouding their souls.
Taking one hand,
she lets go and reaches down
as if expecting them
to take her hand and lead her.
Too far up for them to offer help,
the ground dwellers beckon her,
they call her
to the darkness below.
Losing concentration for a tiny second,
she falls helplessly from her perch
directly into the arms of a man.
What a place to be,
relying on the strength of one soul,
breathing in the air,
that he expels.
It was bliss, it was happiness,
until he dropped her,
sending her to her second death,
another perfect accident.
All she can hope for,
all she now dreams,
is for that man to climb
using the vigor he stole.
Scheme | ABCDEAFGHIJKLMNGOGGFPQRJSTCIGUVWXYS |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (29%) |
Metre | 1010 10100111 1110010 1001001 011001 11010 10101 10100 01101 101110 011110100 1011 1011 1110101 110101 1101010 111111101 0110100 110 101001 10010101010 11100101 0100101101 10111 010101111 10001 111 11111100 01110 10010101 01001100 11111 1111 111111 1001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 884 |
Words | 169 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 35 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 719 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 169 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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