Analysis of The Sands Are Alive With Sunshine
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
The sands are alive with sunshine,
The bathers lounge and throng,
And out in the bay a bugle
Is lilting a gallant song.
The clouds go racing eastward,
The blithe wind cannot rest,
And a shard on the shingle flashes
Like the shining soul of a jest;
While children romp in the surges,
And sweethearts wander free,
And the Firth as with laughter dimples . . .
I would it were deep over me!
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 0110111 010101 01001010 110101 0111010 011101 001101010 10101101 11010010 01101 001111010 11101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 383 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 11, 2023
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