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The Answer

Oh woe to Tracinda
   And her dear family
Caught up in a dark world
   As a cat up a tree.

A knight in bright armour
  Will ride in modern days
Easing a heart swiftly
   And drowning out a blaze.

Fearing death from a torch
  Lit New York on fire,
She looks down far below
 Then truly feels higher.

Sorrow to Tracinda
    She held a young child,
A tiny one month old
   Who couldn't have smiled.

Clinging tight to her son
  She braves a daring thought,
Perchance a soul below
  will help him to be caught.

Hope to dear Tracinda
  All she can do is pray
Maybe they’ll be alive
  Reach the following day.

Sudden clash of silver
  Slashes away the night
As the brave knight leaps up
   Concluding the boy’s flight.

Baby saved, the deed done
  Tracinda left up high
Firefighters find her
  To save her from the sky.

Who was this brilliant knight?
  Why it was Felix V.
Saving a youthful life,
  An answer to a plea.

Author notes

I wrote this as a ballad for my English class. It is about a real news event. A mother was caught up in her apartment while it was on fire and she had her one month old son with her. She threw the baby out the window to the crowd and a man named Felix caught him.

Results: Yay I got good marks for this
Written February 3rd, 2006

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  • x9Nocturnal9x
    February 8, 2006
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    Haha darn right it was hard..I was only given a paragraph of information so I had to fill it with metaphors of a knight and this and that thanks for the thought-out comments

  • Mannequin
    February 7, 2006
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    It sort of seems like a lot of the rhyming was forced but hey, it flowed...so it works, somehow. I figure it must be hard to write a sonnet describing a real event on the news but you still managed to pull it off rather well. At first, I wasn't entirely sure what it was about but that's part of the fun in reading some of your stuff because at first it's like "huh?" and after a while it's more like "Oh...ok, that's pretty neat". LOL. I thought the description of the baby here:"A tiny one month old who couldn't have smiled." was a bit confusing but other than that, you got yourself a pretty solid piece. Congrats.