A Word Is Dead.

Title's analysis: in this poem the poet can talk about a word that is not used anymore or that has been forgotten.
In the title there is a personification.

The text is a poem of two tercets.
In the first tercet the speaking voice says that when somebody speaks and uses words as soon as a word is said, it dies. In this tercet the speaking voice is a normal person.
In the second tercet the speaking voice changes into a first person narrator and expresses a totally different opinion. In this tercet the poet speaks on behalf of all poets.

It goes without saying that the struncture of the poem is conceive of to give different opinion about the life of the words. Its function is to convey a point of view opposite of the other.

Connotative Analysis.

The poet plays with sounds.
The only rhyme in this poem is between the two final words of the two tercets (Say/Day).
In the first tercet there is an alliteration (...said,some say).

Conclusion.
Normal people are different from poets and everybody has a different opinion about when a word begins to live and when it dies.