Remember this is now

A couple months ago I came across this poem called "Remember Now" by Sylvia Plath, which called to me as something you may say to yourself. So I put it to music right away, but I wasn't content with it so I scraped it. Now I have returned to it tweaked a few things here and there. It's a SAATBB piece with much divsi and so I doubt I'll ever get to see it performed, but I have to say I'm quite proud of it. 

 

Hello again @Some Guy That writes Music!

This seems to be in the same keys as that other orchestral piece of yours that I recently reviewed.  You seem to have a strong preference for the keys of C major/A minor and Ab major/F minor (the latter is also among my favorite tonalities).  But you seem to lack or avoid the potential of transition and modulation in your music.  Maybe this is a characteristic of some choral music?  But then again, Wagner loved to write choir pieces and he was the "master of transition".

Besides having very repetitive lyrics, the piece does stay in each of its tonalities for a long time without any change or accidentals and imo it cries out for some chromaticism!  But the piece does achieve a kind of hypnotic effect with some variation and a very melancholy pathos.  Thanks for sharing!