Considering the title, the intelligent reader is curious to find out the reason why the title is written in French.
He expects the poem to be about a specific type of museum.

The poem is arranged into two stanzas with a different number of lines.
It displays free verses thus it does not follow a regular pattern.
All lines begin with a capital letter.

In the first stanza there are some alternating rhymes, but not all over the stanza. That are in lines 5-7; 9-11 and 10-12, while in the last stanza there are two kissed rhyme in lines 14-15 and 18-19.
Thus the reader is curious about the reason and the effect for this rhyme using.

The intelligent reader understands that the title is written in French because the poet is inspired by the "Musee des beaux arts" in Belgium.

All the core meanings are associated with a specific painting that are on the Museum.

After the reading the intelligent reader could understand that the poem should be an argumentative text in verse, therefore the first stanza is a thesis and second one is a reasoning.

The intelligent reader understands that in the first stanza the speaking voice highlights the main theme of suffering.
He or she wants to convey that suffering is a part of human’s life. Moreover, the speaking voice communicates that suffering occurs in an unexpected way and that anyone happens to suffer.

The ninth line is the shorter one of all the poem. With this choice, the poem wants to stick this sentence in the reader’s mind.
Aged are compared with children, old men are waiting instead children are skating, thus they are moving on contrary as old men who they are stationary.

In the second stanza the speaking voice communicates an example of suffering that is displays in the painting of “Breughel's Icarus”. However, this stanza, unlike the first, underlines not only the theme of suffering, but also how to overcome it.

In fact, he or she tells that in spite of the “splash”, it does not a “failure” and in the following painting description he or she uses all positive words.

In line sixteenth there is an onomatopoeic word (“splash”) which is the stressed word of the line. This figure of speech is used to stick this concept in the reader’s mind.

There are a lot of enjambment which are used to convey the rhythm of the poem.

The poem has got a lot of perception verbs like: “heard” and “seen” that suggest a sense of passivity, things append in spite of people will.