In "The Visitor," Gibbons Ruark evokes the dreamlike and otherworldly quality of music. The poem's flowing structure reflects the nature of music itself, while the rich sensory detail reveals how music encompasses more than purely auditory appeal. Through this poem, Ruark demonstrates how music transcends one's senses to resonate with listeners on a subconscious and emotional level and is a way of escaping into a fantastical and dream-like world. The structure of the poem is inconsistent and symbolizes both the nature of music and its ability for the piano tuner and narrator to escape. The poem initially uses phrases which are sporadic and choppy, "He hesitates at first, but once he finds/the keyboard, his hands glide over the slow/Keys (3), but as it progresses, the poem starts to flow due to the use of enjambment. This structure symbolizes the soft nature of music and creates a distinctive atmosphere and mood surrounding the poem. Though the poem doesn't have a set rhyme scheme, the occasional rhymes such as "blind" and "finds" and "blaze" and "haze"  add to the fluidity of the poem. This also represents the softness and smoothness of music and adds to the overall sense of beauty and harmony that music has which allows the piano tuner to experience the beauty of the world he lives in. The change from a discordant structure to a more fluid one symbolizes the transport from reality to surrealism and is further emphasized by the tuner's examination of the piano. The imagery created by the combined senses shows that music is beyond the senses and speaks more to the soul than the mind. Though the piano tuner is blind, he is able to use his others senses and becomes attune with the piano; his blindness actually works to his advantage. With his enhanced senses of sound, touch, and taste, he is able to tune the piano far better than anyone else would be able to. The poem notes that he can "ring changes finer than the eye/ can se