Elements of Poetry

Sound Devices:

- Repetition:

"He did a lazy sway..."

"Oh blues!"

- Alliteration:

"poor piano"

"singer stopped"

- Assonance: "old piano moan"

- End rhymes

Structure/Meter: Free Verse

Onomatopoeia:

"Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor"

Allusion: Lenox Avenue