I think it is interesting that this poem is in prose. What is meant when the writer said “brother of the stranger?

I think this poem would have done well if there was rhyme. What do they mean when they say the grains of sand are “clear as wine”

This poem really emphasizes what is important to the writer, friends, and love. They make a point to say that they pity both he married and unmarried, either way you cannot win.

Why do they use rhyme in some lines but not others? Does the author do this to to emphasize the lines that rhyme?

I think it is interesting how she reuses the phrase “I am a woman, sick for passion”
She uses good things like bright flowers and “loveliness” and turns them into a bad thing.