Falling continuation describes a poetic technique where a thought, image, or syntactic unit flows from one line to the next with a descending or diminishing emotional or rhythmic intensity, creating a sense of resignation, exhaustion, or quiet closure; unlike energetic enjambment, falling continuation often uses softer consonants, shorter phrases, or waning imagery to mirror psychological or thematic descent.

Falling continuation is a descriptive term for a metrical pattern, possibly related to anapaestic or dactylic rhythms, where the stressed syllable is followed by one or more unstressed syllables (a 'falling' rhythm); it describes how that rhythm is maintained across several lines or stanzas, creating a steady, often quick or lilting, momentum.