The Weary Blues Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBBDEEDFFDGDHHIJ HJ KKDLDLMLHHNNN| Droning a drowsy syncopated tune | A |
| Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon | A |
| I heard a Negro play | B |
| Down on Lenox Avenue the other night | C |
| By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light | C |
| He did a lazy sway | B |
| He did a lazy sway | B |
| To the tune o' those Weary Blues | D |
| With his ebony hands on each ivory key | E |
| He made that poor piano moan with melody | E |
| O Blues | D |
| Swaying to and fro on his rickety stool | F |
| He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool | F |
| Sweet Blues | D |
| Coming from a black man's soul | G |
| O Blues | D |
| In a deep song voice with a melancholy tone | H |
| I heard that Negro sing that old piano moan | H |
| Ain't got nobody in all this world | I |
| Ain't got nobody but ma self | J |
| I's gwine to quit ma frownin' | H |
| And put ma troubles on the shelf | J |
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| Thump thump thump went his foot on the floor | K |
| He played a few chords then he sang some more | K |
| I got the Weary Blues | D |
| And I can't be satisfied | L |
| Got the Weary Blues | D |
| And can't be satisfied | L |
| I ain't happy no mo' | M |
| And I wish that I had died | L |
| And far into the night he crooned that tune | H |
| The stars went out and so did the moon | H |
| The singer stopped playing and went to bed | N |
| While the Weary Blues echoed through his head | N |
| He slept like a rock or a man that's dead | N |
Langston Hughes
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