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 |
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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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