You hit the nail on the head about how I feel regarding this piece :)
The reptition was a way of portraying the recurrence of both a person's righteuos motion and also sadness, not so much pain, but more so loss and the realization of that loss. (If any of that actually makes sense.)
Unfortunately repetition comes with a price, the price is a listener's ear, I'm working with ways to use melodies as extensively as I do with boring my listener into a "Bolero" coma.
Thanks for the Review
-Brock K. Martin-