Analysis of Sand-Between-The-Toes



I went down to the shouting sea,
Taking Christopher down with me,
For Nurse had given us sixpence each-
And down we went to the beach.

We had sand in the eyes and the ears and the nose,
And sand in the hair, and sand-between-the-toes.
Whenever a good nor'wester blows,
Christopher is certain of
Sand-between-the-toes.

The sea was galloping grey and white;
Christopher clutched his sixpence tight;
We clambered over the humping sand-
And Christopher held my hand.

We had sand in the eyes and the ears and the nose,
And sand in the hair, and sand-between-the-toes.
Whenever a good nor'wester blows,
Christopher is certain of
Sand-between-the-toes.

There was a roaring in the sky;
The sea-gulls cried as they blew by;
We tried to talk, but had to shout-
Nobody else was out.

When we got home, we had sand in the hair,
In the eyes and the ears and everywhere;
Whenever a good nor'wester blows,
Christopher is found with
Sand-between-the-toes.


Scheme aabb CCCDC eeff CCCDC gghh iiCxC
Poetic Form
Metre 11110101 10100111 11110111 0111101 111001001001 01001010101 010011101 1001101 10101 011100101 1001111 11010011 0100111 111001001001 01001010101 010011101 1001101 10101 11010001 01111111 11111111 1111 1111111001 001001010 010011101 100111 10101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 920
Words 163
Sentences 9
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 5, 4, 5, 4, 5
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 122
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 30, 2023

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Alan Alexander Milne

Alan Alexander Milne was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. more…

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