By reading the title the reader immediately expects the content to create happiness because the rainbow is full of colour and it creates pleasure. A rainbow exists only when it has just rained and the sky is wet, so the sun crosses it creating the rainbow. One can say the title can’t create many expectations because it’s very simple: the reader might be curios to find out the poem’s content; he surely will read the poem, because the title doesn’t create specific expectations, so he will be eager to understand what the poem is about.

Considering the layout one can see the poem is arranged into four stanzas, characterized by different length and lines’ number. By looking at the structure the intelligent reader can find a parallelism between the first and the third stanza, divided by a quatrain; now his curiosity will bring him to ask himself why the poet decided to link these stanzas and to discover their different functions. The poet starts with a statement: whenever the speaking voice looks up at the rainbow his heart leaps up (the speaking voice doesn’t coincide with the poet). In front of this statement the reader doesn’t know yet why the speaking voice says that, but punctuation before the quatrain can help him in finding out the answer to his question: the colon tells immediately the quatrain will provide to the statement’s explanation, even if the stanza doesn’t convey to bring a message and the reason why the speaking voice told that. The stanza’s function is to let the reader know that this has happened since he was born; in addition the speaking voice hopes it will always happen, but it doesn’t provide to a clear explanation. So in the stanza the reader can find the reaction to a rainbow’s view, it connects human beings with nature: the poem is about the connection with a landscape’s view, a pleasuring nature effect.

Last but not least the reader can say the poem is about the narrator’s emotional response which has taken place since he was born. He hopes to feel the same emotions he could feel when he was a child. The poem also brings to surface the speaking voice’s awareness about the end of its childhood: he knows a child has less rationality than an adult man, but it’s that lack which let the child feel some kinds of emotions he will never enjoy during his whole life, because after a child has grown up, he begins thinking in a different way, and thinking in a more logical way means the man won’t feel that kind of emotions anymore.