Analysis of My Wife

Graham BYrne 1939 (Port Broughton)



Laughter is her calling card
It starts at break of day
It echoes through and warms the house
In such a special way
It triggers off the sunshine
That others need to find
When grumpiness and tiredness
Arise with draw of blind
And like the early morning bird
Who whistles for the dawn
That laughter reaches far and wide
Outside the walls of home
I can hear her on the mobile
Somehow, she seems to know
The very little things to say
To set someone aglow
And then whene’er a stranger calls
‘Tis often that I see
A smiling face depart our home
Their spirit oft set free
Nothing seems too difficult
Her work seems not a chore
For her, who has such love to give
I love her more and more
Perhaps you wonder why sometimes
I don’t tell her to rest
It might just make her laugh at me
I won’t disturb our nest


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Poetic Form
Metre 1010101 111111 11010101 010101 110101 110111 110100 011111 01010101 110101 11010101 110111 11101010 11111 01010111 11101 0110101 110111 010101101 110111 1011100 011101 10111111 110101 01110101 111011 11110111 1101101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 820
Words 162
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 28
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 635
Words per stanza (avg) 156

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Honouring a lovely wife

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Written on February 12, 2024

Submitted by grosbyrne on February 11, 2024

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Graham BYrne

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