The piece starts off setting a scene, which is something I appreciate it. The first stanza has an almost prose-like feel to it, that gives a serious, contemplative touch to the entire piece. It's one of my favorite parts of the entire poem.

The second and third stanzas are charming, but not nearly as impacting as the fourth and first. They make a statement, and nothing more, and that technique has it's strength, but it lacks the flow present in other parts of the piece.

This moves into the conflict, the wish for understanding. The language is spare and tasteful, and connects the point. Its a very poignant transition to the conclusion, a powerful upward movement in the poem.

Onto my favorite stanza, and the final stanza. The fluid internal rhyme of "... Play in shades of gray..." really adds feel and movement, almost a crescendo to the whole piece. This is the part that really qualifies as the climax, and this is where the main emotional appeal of the poem is as well. It is an appropriate ending, and one that brings it to a nice close while satisfying.

This poem is a new style for you, you've seem to have left the verse format you are accustomed to, so let's see if that works out.

I think the structure is very important to understand the nature of the poem. I think the centre paragraph makes an attempt to explain why. It is to mark the differences in the main characters. Marking doesn't require detail, just simple short instructions.

The first stanza sets up the meaning of the poem in that it brings in the context for which the rest of the poem is centred around. A pervert, like me, would probably figure out a Freudian metaphor for "instruments" and I feel the poem works in that way too. By extension, the orchestra is the relationship between the people and the music is the outcome, i.e. love.

The next couple of paragraphs, I think unsubtly, declares the problems these two have with themselves. She is un-beautiful and he is egotistic. I think it is unsubtle because we are told this as though they are facts about these people, I think it could have been left open if it was interpretative or they left as opinions they thought about themselves and it would have had more of an impact about there personalities.

Touching on the central paragraph again, it definitely becomes clear that there love is the music. The next line: "They are incapable of understanding one another" doesn't sit well with me. I think it's because it's so straight out there in meaning. I think it's contextually abstract and needs to be brought in line with the rest of the poem.

I like how it ends, I think we finally get to think what they feel about each other and how there opinions are probably a more realistic indications of themselves thatn what they think of themselves.

The sun (in it's future incarnation) and the wind (change) return for the conclusion. It's always nice to see them in your poetry, they are characters in themselves.