Braingle: 'Fall and Break' Riddle

Fall and Break

Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.

Puzzle ID:	#15938
Fun:	(2.99)
Difficulty:	(2.24)
Category:	Riddle
Submitted By:	catsrfun37
Corrected By:	Shadows

I break, she falls. I break, she falls. Who am I, and who is she?

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Rowsdower Dec 30, 2003	I enjoyed this teaser!
MickeyMadden Dec 30, 2003	very creative riddle! I like it!
blushinglily83 Dec 31, 2003	i loved it.. it was fantastic...
brainglebabe Jan 03, 2004	V. good!
worldnick Jan 06, 2004	You should say "it" falls not "she," otherwise it's incorrect. I spent a lot of time thinking about ice skaters and animals, things that have gender. Is your native language french?
RedRogue Jan 19, 2004	That is creative as the day is a masculine and night is feminine.
Jmbannana Mar 15, 2004	I liked it alot. It was a fun teaser.
bear01 Jul 28, 2010	very clever.. didnt get it at all.. was thinking too much like the 'cradle will break, the baby will fall' nursery rhyme.. silly billy bear..
dani4w45t Jul 28, 2010	Very very good! I thought "I" was a mirror and "she" was glass, lol!
dalfamnest Jul 28, 2010	Almost poetic! Simple and strong. Thanks!
doehead Jul 28, 2010	Since when is day male, and night female? Good quiz,but poor terminology.
craniac Jul 28, 2010	Objectively speaking, not enough information to draw a conclusion from ... I give it an O for obtuse.
craniac Jul 28, 2010	But I agree that cats are fun.
sunnybonghits Jul 28, 2010	The way it is written implies that day breaking causes night to fall. Sorry, but I don't like this one.
yash23 Jul 28, 2010	Nice, but I thought it was a sidewalk and she was someone's mom. That sidewalk breaks (a crack), then someone steps on it, and she (their mother) falls.
eclectric Jul 28, 2010	I was thinking: Jack fell down & broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after. repeat
phyllisa Jul 28, 2010	First I thought of a wave breaking and a water fall. Then I got it! I liked this teaser.
wordmama Jul 28, 2010	Yes, I'm afraid both the use of "who" and ascribing gender to intangibles was misleading, unless you are indeed a native European speaker, in which case the genders are somewhat understandable. Otherwise.... My compliments to the poster in front of me who got it!!
nima_m Jul 28, 2010	it was boring
braingle100 Jul 28, 2010	I think there are too many possibilities for this teaser.
thebrain789 Jul 28, 2010	There may be a lot of other answers for this teaser, but it's creative how the night is a girl. And I got it right!
patiencewithaP Jul 28, 2010	The gender thing threw me...my only thought was the bough breaking and a cradle falling.
Shadows Jul 28, 2010	I thought of Jack and Jill too.
barbaralv8 Jul 29, 2010	That was fun - even if I got the answer wrong! I thought of the wind and a sail. If the wind blows, the sail stays up, but if it breaks the sail falls. Oh well.
cwjakesteel Jul 29, 2010	I was thinking of a woman and the heels of her shoes
lukasiwicz Jul 29, 2010	Doehead, the idea that day is masculine and night is feminine goes back at least to the ancient Egyptians, and was passed on to the Greeks, where Apollo was the god of the sun, or day, and Selene was the goddess of the moon, or night. The problem with inferring, in this puzzle, that the day is masculine, is that one must suppose that the speaker, "I," is a man, when the speaker might well be a woman.
GreenApples27 Oct 07, 2011	Very poetic!