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JBordignon_A Word Is Dead
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A Word Is Dead
The title makes us guess that a word is dead. The word is compared to a person.
In the first stanza, the narrator is in third person, and explains that someone says that as soon as a word is spoken, it dies. In the second part, the narrator is in first person, and tells us that in his opinion when a word is spoken does not die, but begins to live.
The poet has divided the poem into three triplets, with rhymes in order A-B-C-D-E-C. Here the poet plays a lot with the sounds of each line.