A WORD IS DEAD
 
The title is simple and clear but also lets the readers think that it contains a deep meaning. “A word is dead” is a personification and is about the life of a word.
From the title the reader may be courious of the function of the word (Why the word is dead?).
Considerin the lyout, the reader understands that is a short poem. The poem is organised into a six lines arranged into two tercets. It follows that the reader might be interesting in discovering the functions of the single tercets.
In the first tercet, the first person narrator, says that when somebody speaks and uses words, the words said die.
In the second tercet, the narrative voice changed into a first person narrator, and he expresses a totaly differen opinion.
It goes without saying that the structure of the poem is conceive of to give two different opinions about the life of a word. Indeed, the function of the first tercet is to convey a point of view which is opposit of the second one.
The content is an argumentation about the life cicle of a word.
The rhyme of the poem is not precised. There are some allitterations (“Some say”, “I say”) that gives a phonological language to the text; and a dental sound caused from some words. There are two personifications: the first line and the fifth line, that compare the word to a person who could live and die.
The third and the sixth lines are in rhyme, and this alloy the two different tercets that have not so much in common.