First Step

Consider the title and see what expectation it creates about the possible content of the poem.
Just considering the title I aspect to be about something happening in springs. Probably when spring has just started (early spring).

Second Step

Read the poem at least twice in order to be sure to have understood what it is about:
Look for the new words
Be able to translate each line
Try to find some connection between the content of the poem and the title

Third Step

Write the denotative analysis of the poem (in your own words say what the poem is about).
The poem is expressed by a speaking voice, in the first person, who says he/she heard the notes of Nature while you are sitting in the growe.
The speaking voice was in a good mood, thinking of something pleasure when suddently his or her mind was crossed by some thoughts.

Fourth Step

Structural analysis (you describe the component parts of the poem and say what the function of each part is).
The poem consist of (is made up of, is arranged into, is organised into...) six quatrain (stanza made up four lines each) where the poet at first provides the reader with (=Fornire qualcosa a qualcuno) the description of the spring landscape and in the last part, invites him/her, to reflect on the relationship between Man and Nature.
Therefore the poem is partly described and partly reflected. The reflection invited is anticipated in the refrain of the second stanza.

Fifth Step

Connotative analysis which consist in:
Phonological level (all that concerns sounds devices)
1.Kind of vowels and consonance
2.Kind of consonance sounds
3.Rhyme scheme
4.Rhythm
5.Assonances and alliterations
6.Pauses and punctuation
7.Enjambaments
8.End-stop lines

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Sixth Step

Semantic level (consider words choise, Latinate words or Anglosaxon, semantic fields, methafonical words, what verb tenses are used? Are words recurred?)

====> Explain what is the effect they produced and explain how the choises make add meaning to the text.

Seventh Step

Syntacticle level (deviation from the norm)
Punctuation
Invertions

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