Analysis of Sand-Between-The-Toes
Alan Alexander Milne 1882 – 1956
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 |
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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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