Analysis of Spirare
I don't know how a lung knows to fill its alveoli for the first time
Nor do i understand how a lung knows to expel its final warm breath into a benevolent breeze
This generous blue bubble that consents to our residence couldn't possibly realize that it bears and propagates elements which are so vital to our subsistence from our first gulp to our last puff, could it?
Yet the munificent winds kindly blow from the origin to the absolute end carrying these infinitesimal ingredients passing through each of us firmly fastening us in ways that we are unaware
Attaching us tightly bound to those before us, those among us and those still to come like an invisible spider web that has been eternally woven without regard for time or dimension
Breathe the air that has passed through those who conspire with anger and rage in their hearts and brains a thousand years ago
Breathe it into your gracious heart and peaceful mind and share it with yours and send it swirling, inspiring those through the next thousand years better than what you found it
Our first to final breath and all between have been and will forever be the common, unseen fabric of all who inhale and exhale perpetuating self similarity
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Metre | 11110111110101011 1110110111011101101001001 110011010111010010100101110110011110110010110111101111 1011101101001010110010010001001011111010010111101 0101101110111011011111101001011110100100101111010 1011111110101100101101010101 110111010101011110111001011011011011111 1011101010111010101010011011101001010010100 |
Characters | 1,206 |
Words | 214 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 123 |
Words per line (avg) | 27 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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