I read the text and tried to understand its message. Just considering the title of the song, the reader may expect the song to be about peace. Such expectation is created by the word “peace” in the title; the main word is “chance”, that refers to an opportunity. I can understand that peace haven’t got any opportunity in this world.
Also from reading the title I understand that the song probably invites people to give an opportunity to peace.
In the title the idea of opportunity is underline by the assonance “peace-chance”. As a matter of fact, today the countries want power and many of them want to become the strongest of the world.
In the title, there is “Give”, an imperative. It tell that all people speak but they don’t make anything to improve the condition of all the world.
When listening to the song the listener can understand that there is a solo singer followed by a choir of people singing together.
The song is arranged into four stanzas. In the first and in the second one there is a parallelism between the first line “Ev’rybody’s talking about” repeated at the beginning of the first stanza and at the beginning of the second stanza. In the first stanza there is a suffix “ism' generally adding a negative connotation to the words. Some examples are “Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism”.
“All we are saying is give peace a chance” and it recalls the word of the title. There is a significantly pronoun “We” which means “you and me”. The singer invites people to build one world.
In the second stanza there are some political charges, the writer wants to criticize in turn.
In the third stanza and in fourth stanza there is a parallelism between the first and the second line and the chorus repeats the refrain twice.
In the last stanza there are people’s name, for example “John and Yoko” or “Bob Dylan”. The songsymbolically ends with the chorus. The writer wants to underline again the idea of peace because he would like all people to get on well and sing togethertobuild one world of peace