Collins utilizes this poem to describe how people focus so much on trying to find the meaning in a piece, that they fail to merely enjoy learning about it. The author uses five stanzas to describe how the narrator wants people to experience their poem and only two stanzas to describe how people actually do experience it. This 5:2 ratio parallels how the poet hopes people will organize their time while engaging with his poems because it would take more time to read five stanzas rather than two stanzas. The author also sets a peaceful tone using words like “probe”, “walk”, and “feel” in the five stanzas dedicated to his hopes for the reader.