• SECOND STEP: read the poem at least twice in order to be sure, to have understand 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).
Example: “the poem is expressed by a speaking voice, in the third person who says he or she heard the notes of Nature while is sitting in the grove. The speaking voice was in a good mood, thinking of something pleasure when suddenly his or her mind was cross by some sad thoughts.

• FOURTH STEP: structural analysis (you describe the component part of the poem and say what the function of each part is)
Example : the poem consists of six quatrains ( is a stanza consisted of four line each) where the poet at first provides the reader with the description of a pleasant spring landscape and in at last part invites, him or her to reflect on the relationship between man and Nature. There are partly descript and partly reflective.
The reflection invite is anticipated in the refrain of the second stanza( “ What man has made of man”).

• FIFTH STEP: the analysis connotative is consist in:
A) Phonological level ( all that concerns sound devices: kind of vowel or consonant sounds, rhyme scheme, rhythm, assonance and alliteration, enjambment/ run-on-lines)

EXPLAIN WHAT IS EFFECTS THEY PRODUCE AND EXPLAIN HOW THE CHOICE IS MADE ADD MEANING TO THE TEXT
B) Semantic level ( consider where choice, Latinate or Anglo-Saxon words, semantic fields metaphorical use of words, recurrent words, what verbs tenses are use.

EXPLAIN WHAT IS EFFECTS THEY PRODUCE AND EXPLAIN HOW THE CHOICE IS MADE ADD MEANING TO THE TEXT
C) Syntactical level (order word, deviation from the normal, punctuation)