Right from the title the reader understands the poet and his identity are the focus of the coming lines. The alliterative use of the sound P connects "poet" and his ordinary production. The text does not develop a specific pattern; in rather creates a "crescendo": from the first two lines that assert a statement about the qualities of the real poet, one who works in a "proper" way, the text develops moving from a group of three lines (lines 3-5) where the reader is informed about what the proper poet of the composition did with language. His lines that has the specific function to make clear the difference between ordinary speakers and the poet: he can see what the common people can't. His view of reality is clear (lines 6-9). Then comes the sextet where his skills and competences are convailed through a metaphor where the poet is opposed to saint Francis who was able to comunicate with what generally is impossible for the human being. As did the saint, the proper poet knows how to speak with images and therefore he is clearly able to visualize reality. The simile with birds recalls saint Francis special gift, one that probably comes from God. The poet concludes his climax focus in the attention on a question simply consisted in one word which is simbolically a way to highlight that in nature of poetry as well as its natural, is made of words. The key position of the question concludes the poet's (R.McGough) argumentation with an explanation; the proper poet is such because paradoxically he “could...make words talk”.