Analysis of Breath Of Me



Breath of me - lazily wandering around the home,
where you tread in my wake, sometimes,
I am gentle upon your skin, my mellow breezy mood
washing fresh smiles into eyes wandering the day.
Other times I will blow my life across heaven
and earth and you will fear me with all heart,
powerful me, bleeding leaves into whirlwind dance,
killing life with a toss of my head, destroying
the buildings you took so long to create,
ripping trees from their roots and breaking them
like they were nothing but frightened twigs.
Schizophrenic wind am I, flying through the times
I own, love, hate, breath of me - invisible wind.

Breath of me - feel me gently move flower-heads
in gardens, fields full of colours bright and beautiful,
I will shake petals with all my soul and blow laughs
across evensong, lift litter from ground,
make origami shapes only subtle minds will find
in dreamy moments of reflection of self.
I roam mother earth, I'm connected to her smiles,
her anger, her sorrows, as the seasons change,
so do I, always in tune, wherever I be: everywhere.
I scratch waves upon the sea as easily as gentle
ripples on pond's puddles, skip stones across breadth
of body and smile my windy smiles, breath of me,
breathe me in to live - invisible me giving life or death.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111001000101 11101101 11100111110101 101101110001 101111110110 0101111111 10011010111 101101111010 0101111101 1011110101 110101101 01011110101 111111101001 11111101101 010111110100 111101111011 01111011 1111010111 01010101011 111011010101 01001010101 1111010101110 11101011100110 10111011011 110011101111 110110100110111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,239
Words 227
Sentences 6
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 13, 13
Lines Amount 26
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 499
Words per stanza (avg) 114
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Submitted on June 04, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ian Sawicki

Ian Sawicki has been writing poetry for over twenty years. He is a Manchester born poet, who has dedicated his life to exploration and composition of poetry. His work reflects the many great influential experiences of his life, the pain, the pleasure combined to create new exciting poetry. If anyone is interested in my books then please visit my lulu storefront. All artwork on these books is by my own hand. http://stores.lulu.com/chasingtheday more…

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