This is an analysis of My Heart Was Wandering In The Sands by Christopher John Brennan.
MY heart was wandering in the sands,
a restless thing, a scorn apart;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bXba bXbX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 111100001 01010101 11010011 11011011 10111111 11010101 10110111 01011111 101101011 110100100 11100001 01010101 01110111 11111110 11110101 11010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
my, and, heart
Anaphora
the, my
