Analysis of I’m out of breath
Mahtab Bangalee 1986 (Chattogram)
(In the light of humanity- Oh,
I’m out of breath, I feel suffocated
I cannot breathe, though no Cov-19 infects me
Yes, truly I cannot breathe now
On this earth, I feel ashamed of myself,
On this earth I fie on me as a human being)
(In the light of inhumanity-
But now I forget that I’m human
I was human more than being a-
Jewish, Christian, Muslim, or another believer;
I was human more than being nationality of -
Israel, Palestine, USA, UAE, or any other countries
But,
I forget that the world is safe in human hands
I forget that everyone is safe in human hands
I forget that Jerusalem is my holy place of living prayer
I forget the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Western Wall,
The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the Temple Mount,
The Dome of Rock, the Mount of Olives,
The Church of Nativity, the City of David, the Tomb of the Virgin
I forget the Garden Tomb Jerusalem…..etc
which all are equal spiritual sense giver I forget audaciously
Forgetting all, now, I’m manipulating the scientific inventions
Science comes for me, now, to ravish humanity beastly!
Now, I’m appointing the salaried soldiers to kill the public triumphantly
Now, the ruined ashes, the smell of corpses are blowing through winds roundly
Brutally I’m devastating all, by obeying the non-sense hellish commands of politics
I forget the woman is my mother, the lady is my sister
I forget the man is my father, the gentleman is my brother
I forget the boy is my son, the girl is my daughter
I forget the widow and widower are my relatives
I’ve no value the tears of the orphan kids
Worthless to me the women and men’s sniveling and howling are
Rubbish the entire Bank in my imperialist eyes and bestial senses
Killing the indigenous peoples is my daily passion and working trends
On this earth, now, no human lives here, everyone is like an inanimate object
Animals, all are castrated, blind, dumb, and deaf; all are moving just like animals
That’s why from an incest uterus I make me an inexorable colonialism sect
There is no one to make me stop on the earth, none can barricade me
So I can burn everything and everyone alive, I can destroy all as I like
I can exploit all by my shrewd knowledge and intellectuality
Now, I’m throwing missiles and make them all burning up
There are flames, dark ashes, coals, debris, and relics in moaning
For the plateaus, on throne cheerily I’m dinking the menstrual cup)
(In the light of humanity- Oh,
I’m out of breath, I feel suffocated
I cannot breathe, though no Cov-19 infects me
Yes, truly I cannot breathe now)
Chattogram © Mahtab Bangalee
Scheme | ABCD xe cxfgxx xhh xixjxfi xcccx gggjxx xx kxk cxb lel ABCD i |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 001101001 111111100 1101111011 11011011 111110111 1111111101010 001100100 111011110 111011100 1010101010010 1110111001001 1001011111101010 1 101101110101 101110110101 10110100111011101 10101110101 01101010101 011101110 0110100010110011010 10101010100100 1111010001101011 01011101000010010 1011111101001 11010010010110100100 101010011101101110 1001100110100111001110 10101011100101110 10101111001001110 10101111011110 101010010011100 11100110101 10110100110101 10001010101000101010 1000100101110100101 11111101110111010010 10011101101111011100 1111110011111000010001 1111111110111101 1111100100111011111 11111111001 1110100111101 111110101010010 1011111101001 001101001 111111100 1101111011 11011011 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 2,529 |
Words | 458 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 6, 3, 7, 5, 6, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 49 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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