My Papa's Waltz Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI| The whiskey on your breath | A |
| Could make a small boy dizzy | B |
| But I hung on like death | A |
| Such waltzing was not easy | B |
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| We romped until the pans | C |
| Slid from the kitchen shelf | D |
| My mother's countenance | E |
| Could not unfrown itself | D |
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| The hand that held my wrist | F |
| Was battered on one knuckle | G |
| At every step you missed | F |
| My right ear scraped a buckle | G |
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| You beat time on my head | H |
| With a palm caked hard by dirt | I |
| Then waltzed me off to bed | H |
| Still clinging to your shirt | I |
Theodore Roethke
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