“For all their - almost - excess of expression, the lines are cadenced and paid out in a sort of listening rhythm, a very personal, measured gather and tumble of polysyllables, after the unhearing jack-hammer blast of the early poems.”

“Sometimes, sonorities more remotely related to the tropos are incorporated to produce a sense of harmonic instability and cadential delay.”

“They should bring to life the droning intonations and cadential prolongation his music shares with the undulating rhythms of Russian prayer.”

“The extra measure of this nine-measure theme is created by a small expansion of the cadential progression.”