The sonnet's chute is its most crucial moment: when Ronsard writes "Quand vous serez bien vieille" the poem builds through its twelve lines toward the devastating final couplet where he urges Hélène to gather rosebuds, the chute delivering the Carpe Diem moral that retrospectively illuminates the preceding meditation; Baudelaire's "Correspondances" ends with the famous synesthetic catalogue "Qui chante les transports de l'esprit et des sens," the chute gathering the poem's scattered sensory correspondences into a final musical synthesis; In epigrammatic poetry, the chute must arrive in a single final line, as when Voltaire ends a satirical poem with an unexpected reversal that makes the entire preceding argument suddenly appear in an ironic light; A student writing a sonnet should draft the chute first, then construct the preceding stanzas as preparation and anticipation of that final revelation, understanding that the chute's power depends on everything that leads to it; The failed chute, a final line that simply states rather than transforms, is one of the most common weaknesses in student sonnets: the chute must do something, surprise, reverse, illuminate, or detonate, not merely conclude; Rimbaud's prose poem "Départ" ends with the two-word chute "Assez vu" launching each of three short stanzas, using the minimal chute structure to enact the speaker's exhausted, visionary finality.