Right from the title the reader understands that the poet and his identity are the focus of the coming lines. The alliterative use of the plosive sound “p” connects poet and his ordinary production.

The text does not develop a specific pattern; it 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 elicited reflection in a pleasant way. From the tercet the poet moves to a quatrain, 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 6-7-8-9).

Then comes the sestet, where his skills and competences are conveyed through a metaphor, where the proper poet is juxtaposed to St. Francis, who was able to communicate with what was impossible for the human being. As did the saint, the proper poet knows how to speak through images and therefore he is really able to visualise reality. The simile with bird recalls St. Francis special gift, one that probably come from God.

The poem concludes its climax focusing the attention on a question simply consisting of one word, which is symbolically a way to highlight that the nature of poetry as well as its materials s made of words.

The key position of the question concludes R. McGough's argumentation with an explanation, the proper poet is such because paradoxically it could... "make words talk"