This is an analysis of For My Wife by Wesley McNair.
How were we to know, leaving your two kids
behind in New Hampshire for our honeymoon…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcadefcgfXeXbhgadXgah
- Stanza lengths: 22,
- Metre: 1010110111 010110011101 11011010101 010111001100 1101101001010 0100111111 01011010111 0011110011 0010111001 11101101101 010011010001 01000100101 101010010101 11011011 010010110110 11111000101 0001011001 011101010 01001111011 11010100111 111100101101 10101101010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 22
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