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The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.
We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself.
The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.
You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.
1.ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH
2. romped- it gives a feeling of energetic and wild.
Battered- gives a feeling of being through rough times and well used.
Scraped- this gives a feeling of pain and discomfort.
Beat- gives a feeling of having rhythm and timing.
Unfrown- gives a feeling of unhappiness and disappointment.
Clinging- gives a feeling of not wanting to stop and want to continue.
Caked- gives a feeling of being covered and being over used.
3. Such waltzing was not easy-Consonance
My mother's countenance-Consonance
Slid from the kitchen shelf-Assonance
4. The hand that held my wrist was battered on one knuckle" - tactile
"The whiskey on your breath could make a small boy dizzy" - olfactory
slid from the kitchen shelf- visual, auditory
"At every step you missed my right ear scraped a buckle" - tactile
5.The speaker’s attitude towards his father is a good one. Even though his dad sounds like a drunk, they still
enjoy each other’s time together. He talks about how he has fun dancing with his father and when he has to go to
bed he doesn’t want to.
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