This is an analysis of The Sands Are Alive With Sunshine by William Ernest Henley.
The sands are alive with sunshine,
The bathers lounge and throng,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa Xbcb cdcd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 01101011 010111 11001010 0100101 0111010 011101 101101010 10101001 11010010 111101 101101010 11001101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Anaphora
the, and
