-in the first stanza the -b sound is used a lot.
-and the first and third lines rhyme
- in the second stanza there is a little rhyming but the -s sound is used a lot
- there is a bunch of rhyming in this poem
-more rhyming in stanza 4
I included my annotations of the poem
The major techniques that were used were assonance and consonance. This poem was about a little girl that was describing the "dance" that her father did whenever he got home most of the time. she had described in what she thought was a dance that her dad did with her all the time when in reality he was really just drunk and he could barley hold his balance. i think though that he was trying to dance with her.
The way that she uses assonance and consonance are that in each stanza she rhymes the same places in different stanzas. I think that she did that because she thought that it would make it sound more childish and realistic as if actually from a little girl dancing with her incapacitated dad. I don't think that she uses assonance on purpose in the sense that it doesn't change the way that you interpret the story.
Cole, what makes you think the speaker is female? Rhyme is not the same as assonance and consonance. If the assonance is not on purpose and does not contribute to the poem, then it does not qualify as a technique. For any technique you do include, you need to give an example and say how it affects the poem or reader. There are many other techniques used here that you do not cover. Needs work.
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