They call this one as the Abyssal Plain. The abyssal plain is located between the mid-ocean range and the continental rise. They are the key features of the geologic elements of the oceanic basin. This is where the plate tectonics are also located.
To describe trying to hold sand, Edgar Allan Poe uses these pair of rhyming words:
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! Yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep.
The author is describing his lost of hope "In a night, or in a day / In a vision, or in none". He is talking about a goodbye, a sad moment where he feels the loss of his illusion, like grains of sand falling from his hands, falling deep while he weeps, he cries of sadness for the goodbye.
The outline is the skeleton and the research paper is the body itself.