This poem is a very short 16-line ABAB rhyme scheme. Reading this piece over and over I found out that the speaker is probably talking about himself as a child and his father. The two seem to do dance or a waltz around the house that is somewhat violent. The most intriguing thing about this poem is that one cannot tell for sure whether this a is a found memory, or a euphemism for a time when his father used to beat him; I think it could go either way. The tone of the poem suggests the dance was rough and dangerous but certainly fun. But when you like at phrases like “you beat time on my head”(13) one starts to wonder whether his father was simply drunk and would beat on his child as he took him to bed. The last line, “still clinging to your
