Model Husband

[Leanne]

She scrubs up well does my missus,
x / | x / | / x | / x

in her dungarees and cape;
/ x | / x | / x| /

I experience what bliss is
/ x | / x | / x | / x

when I gaze upon her shape.
/ x | / x | / x | /

For although her hair is thinning
/ x | / x | / x | / x

and several parts are growing fat
x / x | x / x | / x | /

there aren’t any other women
/ x | / x | / x | / x

who can make me feel like that.
/ x | / x | / x | /

In her eyes the stars are swimming
/ x | / x | / x | / x

without artificial gloss
/ x | / x| / x | /

and I have to say no thank you to Kate Moss.
x x /| x / | x / |x / | x /


I'm not trying to prove anything, just to illustrate. This is how I'd scan the first stanza of your poem -- x for an unstressed syllable, / for stressed (| is just to mark the feet). In perfect meter, each line would follow the same pattern (or each corresponding line in each stanza). The small variations you have are normal for speech and, as I said before, not wrong -- just not as even as it could be.