in Just- Youth Quotes

When you’re young, everything is sudden and everything is important. Kids don’t walk – they run. Marbles and piracies (imaginary or not) are incredibly pressing, but eddieandbill are willing to drop everything as soon as the promise of balloons is in the air.

Young kids and a young year blend together seamlessly here. Spring becomes the time when young minds can label the world, creating new words like "puddle-wonderful."

The repetition of youthful figures running into the poem underscores the sense that the whole world is filled with youth. It’s not just "eddieandbill." It’s "bettyandisbel," too.

Notice how every phrase is joined by "and?" It creates the sense of being SOO excited by what’s going on that you’ve just GOT to share it all at once. That rush of urgency is something that our speaker seems to share with the youngsters he’s talking about.