Analysis of My Falling Star



Watch you don't bang your head as you fall,
you've been though enough already.
Wondering why the planet is so blue.
Could it be crying for us?

So it is certain that you must go.
Lets make up a song for us.
Lets sing it loud.
Sing it with our hearts on our sleeves.

For it shall be called "My falling Star"
And it will tell of our love.
How your life is a story.
How you fell from the sky with your human-like soul.

Try not to be sad when you have to leave.
There's always another day.
There's always another life.
Maybe we'll be together forever and just not realize.

But, when we meet again I'll take a picture of us.
A part of our happiness frozen in time.
And if you should leave again?
It will remind me you once existed.

So tell me again why the planet is so blue.
Is it really crying for us?
Are its salty oceans really its tears?
Tears cried over our lack of acceptance.

Yes, people point at us with their fingers.
They say that we cannot be.
That our love is unnatural and ungodly.
But, I am the one who owns the picture.

Our hearts defy the laws of the earth.
Pay no heed to their judgment my friends.
Instead, sing our song and shed a tear for our cause.
But, watch you don't bang your head as you fall.


Scheme ABCD XDXX XXBX XXXX DXXX CDXX XBBX XXXA
Poetic Form
Metre 111111111 11101010 1001010111 1111011 111101111 1110111 1111 1111011101 111111101 01111101 1111010 111101111011 1111111111 110101 110101 101101001001110 1111011101011 011101001001 0111101 1101111010 111011010111 11101011 1110101011 11101011010 1101111110 1111101 1101101000010 1110111010 1010101101 111111011 01110101011101 1111111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,221
Words 278
Sentences 31
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 116
Words per stanza (avg) 30

About this poem

A poem written about a forbidden love.

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Written on July 09, 2008

Submitted by MeltyCat on October 10, 2022

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Rachel Warwick

Rachel Warwick is an English poet whose works include the ward winning 'My Skies', 'Vision of Creation', 'My Falling Star' and Others. more…

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