“The Unforgettable Waltz”My Father's Waltz is a powerful poem written by Theodore Roethke. The title of the poem set my expectations for a poem about someone dancing with their father. As I read the poem, I noticed that my expectations were not equivalent to the actual content of the poem. The author's creative use of words in the title enhances the poem. My Papa's Waltz consists of four quatrains written in an abab rhyme scheme. Quatrains are stanzas that contain four lines. The rhyme scheme abab means rhyme in lines one and three and rhyme in lines two and four. This poem gives readers an interesting insight into the childhood experience of being waltzed to bed through first-person narrative. The narrator makes the involvement of alcohol quite clear by stating, “The whiskey on your breath could make a little boy dizzy” (lines 1 -2). These two lines establish the influence of alcohol and the general idea of ​​how great the son is. Instead of stating that the father was heavily drunk, the narrator makes a metaphorical point by stating that the smell of his father's breath could make him light-headed....