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She reads the shells as the fans , the piled up mussels as the ash heaps , and offers the additional insight that the predictable rhyme and rhythm of the verse offer stability in a world of flux . As Costello has suggested , the very structure of the poem , the predictable rhymes and rhythms , themselves marking " time " in another sense , offer stability in a world of flux .