A Word is Dead
The reader considered the life of a word. It's a personification where a word is compared to a human being. The reader may expect this poem is about the function of a word. May wonder why a word is dead. Therefore the reader find out why the word is dead.
The layout shows that it is a poem: is organized in 6 lines. It is divided in two tercets.
In the first tercet the third person narrator says that when somebody's speak and used a word as soon as this word is said it dies.
In the second tercet the narrative voice changes into a first person narrator and this expresses a totally different opinion.
It goes without saying that the structure of the poem in concave of to give a different opinion about the life of the word. Indeed the function of the first tercet is to convey a point of view which is the exactly opposite of the second one.
The content is an argumentation about the life cycle of a word.
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).
In the second and in the third lines there is a run-on-line. In the second line of the second tercet there is another personification, a word is compared to the verb "to live".