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Did you have to follow rules for these sketches? Or did you impose any on yourself? Why did you restrict yourself to piano, for example? I couldn't tell if the poem was used as a catalyst for your inspiration or was it supposed to be a literal interpretation. The poem is quite grim and dark. I would have treated it as such. But your music was anything but. Using a refined sort of pan-diatonicism, you painted a very meditative work, almost Prozac-like in its even keel, possibly Japanese sand garden. I think the changing time signatures were effective and easy to follow, and I especially like bar 31, where you slowed the tempo by going from 8th notes to quarter note triplets, an effective technique.