Hughes’s reading of the poem “Weary Blues”, is similar to the way that I read it on paper. The poem is about a black man playing jazz and blues music on the piano. Hughes describes how the melodies that the man creates on the piano is very relative to his life. In the recording, Hughes slows down on the “oon”, “l”, and “oan” syllables. The importance of this slowing done is to resemble the melody of a blues tune. The sound can be viewed as being sad and dragged out to emphasize the length or importance of a word. I believe that Hughes likes to purposely use words that take longer to pronounce in order to sound like a blues song. He also uses an irregular rhyme scheme throughout the play in order to give off the feeling a song, this element adds to the musical theme. For example, the rhyme can be compared to a sonnet, but it also is very different. Hughes, rhymes scheme follows this construction (a,a,b,c,c,b,b,d,e,e,d), but as you can see it is very inconsistent.

            The final stanza of the poem represents what Hughes believes Blues means to him. It means that the music industry especially for black musicians was very difficult and depressing. Blues music itself had a very depressing and sad tone as well, which is all the more reason Hughes performs it the way he did.