Grain Of Salt, A

Wallace Irwin 1875 – 1959



Of all the wimming doubly blest
    The sailor's wife's the happiest,
    For all she does is stay to home
    And knit and darn, and let 'im roam.

    Of all the husbands on the earth
    The sailor has the finest berth,
    For in 'is cabin he can sit
    And sail and sail, and let 'er knit.
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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXAA BBCC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 287
Words 55
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4

Wallace Irwin

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