Model Husband

[penguin]

Thanks, Dale. The poem has been around some time and on another couple of sites so I checked back to see if the metre had been commented upon before. A couple of people had - though many more hadn't. Which leads me to suppose that it is, forgive the pun, a question of emphasis. I take your point, to some extent, but it's more important to me that the voice sounds (or reads) natural and authentic than that a strict metre is observed throughout. And I can't agree, by the way, that the line you cite, reads awkwardly.

Best Wishes, Ray