author
carl sandburg: wrote a lot of free verse about cities, 20th century poet, famous for chicago poems, pulitzer prize winner
narrator
'you' understood, instructor for a band
setting
new orleans jazz club
summary
play drums saxophone and banjoesplay tin pans, sand paper, and trombones, talks about types of music, sad and lonely, exciting, axtion and suspense, violent, now something smoother and softer
alliteration
husha hushslippery sandsoft stars
imagery
high soft starslong cool winding saxophonemoan like the autumn wind high in the lonesome treetopssling your knuckles on the bottoms of the happy tin pansred moon rides on the humps of the low river hills
personification
moan like the autumn windhappy tin panslanterns callslippery sand paperlonesome treetopscry like a racing car
simile
cry like a racing car slipping awaymoan like the autumn wind high in the lonesome treetops
assonance
husha husha hushlong cool
onomatopoeia
batterhusha husha hushbang banghoo hoo hoo oo
mood
lively playful touchchanges- different things that he is telling them to do
theme
there is many different sounds that can express many different emotionsmusic is enjoyable