Analysis of Wife
Julian Tuwim 1894 (Łódź) – 1953 (Zakopane)
My husband is idle, is dumb and spends money.
He either stands still at the window or runs about town like a bunny.
He stares and he stares, at a tram, at the sky.
He mutters, he whistles: he rummages over the house like an amateur spy.
And then he reads books: he turns their pages at least.
There are books in the kitchen and cellar; folios mixed with the yeast.
But what is he thinking about? what does my husband mumble?
When he tries to speak he gets nervous: piles of words flurry and tumble.
In the evening he drinks, and I feel angry enough
When I see his dear eyes getting misted up with that stuff.
His eyes are misted. He takes one more dram.
He kneels down beside me and lays his head on my arm.
It is only then that I learn for the first time who I am.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110110110 110111010110111010 11011101101 1101101100100111101 011111111011 111001001011101 111110011111010 11111111011110010 0010110111001 1111111011111 111111111 1110110111111 111011111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 773 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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