I look like it, swim like it and quack like it. So I might as well be considered a ...

Lovely rouge or solid red, Falling on your head, you dread. Compressively strong, carefully based, Let not a cubit go to waste. Couldn't solve this one? ''Hit me, pal, you're done.''

I'm gonna reprise this one now, Because I think it's kinda cute. And if you finally figure it out, To you we will salute. Looking for a city name, It's located right on the sea. If you drop your frozen waffle on the beach, This is the appropriate place to be.

Instruments sing when I am tight, guiding balloons on a tethered flight. A puppeteer's friend, in webs I'm spun, binding things until my task is done.

Tip atop, Land or sea, A kind of coat, For family. Squishy tube, Minty goop, Atop the head, Of king of coop.