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.


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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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Kassandra M. Konecny

Kassandra Konecny is a lover of listening to music, hiking in the mountains, and observing the way people act. She began writing vigorously when she was fourteen and will hopefully never stop. She has had her fair share of trials lately, and tries to encompass nearly every subject there is to study into her writing. Kassandra plans to study creative writing and psychology. She's 17 and currently lives in Utah with her family. Contact her at kassandrakonecny@hotmail.com more…

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