Poetic Meaning

Tone: sad/depressed

Type of poem: Free Verse

Simile:

"He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool".

"He slept like a rock or a man that's dead)".

Metaphor:

"He made that poor piano moan with melody".

Personification:

"He made that poor piano moan with melody".

Rhyming couplets:

"With his ebony hands on each ivory key/He made that poor piano moan with melody"

"Swaying to and fro on his rickety stool/He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool"

"In a deep song voice with a melancholy tone/I heard that Negro sing, that old piano moan"

"The singer stopped playing and went to bed/While the Weary Blues echoed through his head"