This is an analysis of On The Sands by Arthur Henry Adams.
ALL the air was tranced and the sea was stilled,
And we stood and dreamed of a world to be.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaXababcdcdebeb
- Stanza lengths: 16,
- Metre: 10111010111 1111100100 1010111101 0010100 111101111 1010111111 10110001011 1010101 111110101 1111111101 1110110111 1100111 110111101 00100111111 1011100101 1110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
and, i, you, that, never
Anaphora
and
