MY PAPA'S WALTZ

My Papa's Waltz

My Papa's Waltz

This verse has a kept form. Even at a glimpse, it has a set form. It comprises of four quatrains, each line being an iambic tritameter. The verse is about a juvenile young man waltzing with his father. One can suppose that the speaker is a juvenile young man, or possibly the bard reminiscing his youth. The dad promenades round in a arbitary kind, banging over pots in the kitchen. Upon first glimpse, the pitch is humorous. The image one directly types is rather comical with the young man clinging on for costly life as his chuckling dad rotates him around and around, producing a untidy in the kitchen while the mother examines on discontentedly. However, the line, "whiskey on your wind could make a little young man dizzy" proposes the father's drunkedness and "at every step you missed my right ear scraped buckle" proposes the promenade was not an entirely joyful one. Lines for example "hung on like death", and "beat time on my head" are might even lead the book reader to believe the dad is abusive of the boy.

Indeed, the satirical pitch of this verse proposes that the speaker is rather critical of his father. The whiskey stink, the roughness, the inconsiderate and reckless activities are under scrutiny. The mother's frowning countenance proposes she too is rather sad with the scene. However, the triumphant pitch of the verse is the lightweight and comical one.

The unchanging tempo all through the verse devotes it a lightweight trounce, like a waltz; the book reader feels like s/he is dancing. The rhyme convention of the verse is between the first-third lines and second-fourth lines in the quatrain and this is kept all through the poem. Stresses on phrases for example dizzy and ...