Analysis of Still I fall

Issha S Bose 2009 (Ernakulam)



I saw you,
Saw you again,
And then my eyes
never left you.
I thought of you,
Thought of you again,
And you never ever
Left my mind since.
You are like a disease
That will be the end of me
And I know
That it’s too late,
Like the moment you’ve realized
You’ve swum too far out
In the ocean
Like running over the edge of a knife
To see if it will hurt
But still I fall.
My breath is dwindling,
The last thread from the woof
Of my body
And still I fall.
Because even if you’re what kills me
You are also
What cures me.


Scheme ABCAABDEFGHIJKLMNOPQGOGHG
Poetic Form Tetractys  (52%)
Metre 111 1101 0111 1011 1111 11101 011010 1111 111001 1110111 011 1111 1010110 11111 0010 1101001101 111111 1111 111100 011101 1110 0111 011011111 1110 111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 538
Words 126
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 25
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 391
Words per stanza (avg) 109

About this poem

This poem is a brief description of the way a person falls so hard for someone they know they shouldn't. It describes the angst of forbidden feelings, yet also the gold rush when you look at the person.

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Written on September 23, 2023

Submitted by issha on September 23, 2023

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