- Analysis of the title (when we consider the title we make predictions, conjectures and anticipations about the    possible content.)

- Consider Lay-out (the way the text appears on the page, so we can notice if it is poetry or prose)

- Consider the structure

- Denotative analysis

Poetry shows language arranged in a different way from every-day language.
The language is more synthetical and condensed , so it says a lot without writing much.
A poem hasn't got a defined meaning and it is used also to reach reader's mind.
The role of the reader (in poetry as in prose) is an activ, dynamic one because he is asked to recreate the texts's reality in his mind (wich exists only within the text).
There is a relationship between reader, text and external world.
In the reality of the text there is no final arbiter and there are as meany meaning as the number of the readers.
Literature is a similar world.

Aliteration: is the repetition of the same consonant sound .

In English, rhythm depends on the alternation of stressed and anstressed syllables.

Iambic rhythm (anstressed-stressed)
Trochaic rhythm (stressed-anstressed)

LINE = VERSO
VERSE= INSIEME DI VERSI

Poetic:

1 Characterized by romantic imagery; ˝˝Turner's vision of the rainbow ...was poetic˝
2 of, or relating to poets; ˝poetic insight˝

Poetical-Poetic:

1 characteristic of or befitting poetry, ˝poetic diction˝
2 of, or relating to poetry; ˝poetic works˝, ˝a poetic romance˝