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My Papa's Waltz, Help with stressed syllables?

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I am starting to take a interest in poetry and i need help defining stressed and unstressed syllables. can you show me the stressed syllables in this poem by bolding them and leaving the unstressed in regular font, thanks

My Papa's Waltz

The whiskey on your breath

Could make a small boy dizzy;

But I hung on like death:

Such waltzing was not easy.

We romped until the pans

Slid from the kitchen shelf;

My mother's countenance

Could not unfrown itself.

The hand that held my wrist

Was battered on one knuckle;

At every step you missed

My right ear scraped a buckle.

You beat time on my head

With a palm caked hard by dirt,

Then waltzed me off to bed

Still clinging to your shirt.

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  1. I'll do the first stanza for you so you can see the pattern (sorry, can't bold in the answer). The pattern repeats itself throughout the poem with every second and last word of every line stressed.

    The WHISkey on your BREATH

    Could MAKE a small boy DIZzy;

    But I HUNG on like DEATH:

    Such WALTZing was not EASY.

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