Langston Hughes used a gloomy and mournful tone or a droning a drowsy syncopated tune meaning stressing on the weak beats and the rhythm gives the audience a feeling of rocking back and forth the same sensation. The speaker describes a Negro, who feels abysmal and expresses through his piano and mourns with profound agony. The Negro sings in his deep tone mourning that he is all alone and that there is nobody in the world on his side and he is not happy and left with no wishes in his life as blues songs indicate sorrowfulness, anguish, and lonesomeness.
