The space between the words "leap" and "and" in the poem resembles the distance that Beauty will fall, as stated in option B and explained further below.
The structure of a poem is more important than most of us imagine at a first glance. The way the author chooses to place the words in each line or stanza, separating or joining them, has a meaning that adds to the general meaning of the poem itself.
That is what happens in "Constantly Risking Absurdity." The speaker of the poem talks about how Beauty will fall and how it may or may not be caught. The words "leap" and "and", although they are used to talk about the same event or idea, are in completely different stanzas.
The author uses such space between the two words to physically represent the distance that Beauty will fall. Thus, the structure of the poem contributes to its meaning.
With the information above in mind, we can choose option B as the correct answer.
The missing passage for this question is the following:
Where Beauty stands and waits
with gravity
to start her death-defying leap
And he
a little charleychaplin man
who may or may not catch
her fair eternal form
–“Constantly Risking Absurdity (#15),”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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