The poem Tableau (for Donald Duff) written by Countee Cullen, shows the
             friendship of two young boys, one black and the other one white as they walk down the
             street "locked arm in arm" (line 1). The colored "folks would stare" (line 5) and the white
             "folks would talk" (line 6), saying that these two dare not walk with each other. The two
             boys continue to walk down without caring about what anybody has to say. It reinforces
             the concept that friendship has no color boundaries. The message in this poem conveys
             that the boys maintained their friendship, despite the criticisms of their interracial
             relationship. "Tableau" is a three-stanza poem that utilizes rhyme, imagery and metaphor.
             The structured rhyme scheme of this particular poem is brilliant. It is three-stanzas
             long, with four lines per stanza. Cullen wrote this poem as an iambic tetrameter. The
             poem follows a regular rhyme scheme (ABAB CDCD EFEF). Every other ending line
             rhymes; "way" (line 1) and "day" (line 3), "white" (line 2) and "night" (line 4), "stare"
             (line 5) and "dare" (line 7), "talk" (line 6) and "walk" (line 8), "word" (line 9) and
             "sword" (line 11), and "wonder" (line 10) and "thunder" (line 12). The poem may be
             short but it is filled from top to bottom with useful and meaningful information and words.
             Cullen's use of imagery adds color and life to the poem. It makes the reader feel
             as if they are in the poem. The way he talks about the "lowered blinds the dark folk stare
             and here the fair folk talk" (line5-6) makes the reader able to visualize the two boys
             walking down the street with their arms linked together and having everyone staring and
             sneering at them. The boys are carefree not worrying about what the others are saying.
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