Analysis of A Fresh Of Breath Air



Not enough credit is given,
To today's children and young adults.
Choosing various fields of interest.
And doing their best to achieve success.
Through all the turmoil,
Conflicts and chaos.
Obsessing the minds of childish adults.
Focused and fixed on one's skin color.
And a power the absence of diversity has.
Thank God how fresh,
The contribution young people bring...
To the air we breathe.
A fresh of breath air is what we all need.
Especially these days.

'I agree.
But I think you mean,
Today's young people bring...
A breath of fresh air.'

'That's what I said.'

'No.
You said...
A fresh of breath air.'

'With a freshness is the breath of air,
We are blessed to live and breathe.
To not credit enough of it to the young.
And the young are the ones,
Contributing to this exuberant feeling!'

'It took me 5 words to say,
What it took you...
More time to explain,
How breathing fresh air affects life to live.'

'That may be true.
But I did it more effectively.'

'Breathing?
Or effectively being obnoxious?
Which?'

'That depends on my age!
And which age you think,
Contributes more...
To the freshness of the air you breathe.
Go ahead guess.
Guess how old I am!'

'God?
Please. Please God.
Keep me from responding.
I know I am being set up.
Help me ignore commenting.
Move my feet.
One foot at a time done to move forward.
And give me the strength,
To keep my mouth shut.
As if I had been born,
Without tongue or lips or ears to hear...
What comes out of the minds,
Of these young folks today!'

'You love it!
Just think...
If I had not corrected you,
Less fresh...
Would your breath be more breatheable,
To breathe.
Whatever time you have left to do it.'

'God?
With lips to pucker or bitten to bite.
Prevent one cuss word heard from me,
Ruin my peaceful night!'

'Ahhh...men, my brutha.
Kept faith is precious to keep that way.'

'Now...
Father?
Quicken the pace,
Of my forward steps made.
To appreciate this more as I age!


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Poetic Form
Metre 10110110 101100101 101001110 0101110101 1101 01010 0100111001 100111110 0010010101001 1111 00101101 10111 0111111111 01011 101 11111 011101 01111 1111 1 11 01111 101010111 1111101 11100111101 001101 010011010010 111111 1111 11101 1101101111 1111 111110100 10 1010010010 1 101111 01111 0101 101010111 1011 11111 1 111 111010 11111011 1101100 111 1110111110 01101 11111 111111 011111111 111101 111101 111 11 11110101 11 111111 11 101111111 1 1111011011 01111111 101101 111 111101111 1 10 1001 111011 101011111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,859
Words 366
Sentences 60
Stanzas 14
Stanza Lengths 14, 4, 1, 3, 5, 4, 2, 3, 6, 13, 7, 4, 2, 5
Lines Amount 73
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 103
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted by lpahtillah on July 25, 2021

Modified on March 19, 2023

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