Analysis of The Fall



I happen to be cast a
  different way

Molten like igneous
  stone

I live on the boundary,
  where others won’t play

At the edge of the scary
  unknown

The chess board on fire,
  as the Russian sage smiles

With the questions the same,
  only more

All answers now servant,
  as I step off the ledge

The fall better this time,
—than before

(Grantham New Hampshire: March, 2015)


Scheme XA XB CA CB XX XD XX XD X
Poetic Form
Metre 1101110 1001 101100 1 1110100 11011 1011010 01 011110 101011 101001 101 110110 111101 011011 101 101101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 362
Words 67
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 31
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on December 04, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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