The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
        1          Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
        2          Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
        3              I heard a Negro play.
        4          Down on Lenox Avenue the other night
        5          By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light
        6              He did a lazy sway ....
        7              He did a lazy sway ....
        8          To the tune o' those Weary Blues.
        9          With his ebony hands on each ivory key
        10        He made that poor piano moan with melody.
        11            O Blues!
        12        Swaying to and fro on his rickety stool
        13        He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool.
        14            Sweet Blues!
        15        Coming from a black man's soul.
        16            O Blues!
        17        In a deep song voice with a melancholy tone
        18        I heard that Negro sing, that old piano moan--
        19            "Ain't got nobody in all this world,
        20            Ain't got nobody but ma self.
        21             I's gwine to quit ma frownin'
        22             And put ma troubles on the shelf."
        23        Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor.
        24        He played a few chords then he sang some more--
        25            "I got the Weary Blues
        26            And I can't be satisfied.
        27            Got the Weary Blues
        28            And can't be satisfied--
        29            I ain't happy no mo'
        30            And I wish that I had died."
        31        And far into the night he crooned that tune.
        32        The stars went out and so did the moon.
        33        The singer stopped playing and went to bed
        34        While the Weary Blues echoed through his head.
        35        He slept like a rock or a man that's dead.
    
     This poem is about listening to a melancholy piano player on the streets at night. The author writes on how much he shares the mournful emotions as the musician. The poem describes clearly how swept up the piano man is getting with his music: “swaying to and fro on his rickety stool.”
    Rhyme is a definite poetic device used here, for example: tune and croon, night and light. Repitition is used when he says “He did a lazy sway…” Hughes uses Hyperbole to describe the extent of how much the Blue song drained the pianist by saying “He slept like a rock or a man that’s dead.”
This poem gives the audience a shared feeling of sadness in the lonely night. Over the depressing theme of hopelessness it instills the comfort of music, which is a large focus of the Harlem Renaissance.