A word is dead
Considering the title the reader may be curious to find out the reason why a word is dead.
The poem consists in six lines, it is arranged in two tercetz and therefore the reader may be interested in finding out the function of each.
What the poetesse says is that some people think that once a word is pronunced it dies. The second tercetz express the speaking voice point of view, wich is exatly the opposite of the common's people.
The poet chooses a sound effect on purpose: the first two lines of the initial tercet exploy a rhyme in couplet (dead) wich creates a breake in the reading pace, reinforced by the comma.
There is a difference even in line lenght that adds to what was sad before and once again sees to isolate the line from the previous once. This seems to anticipate what the speaking voice in going to do in the second part of the poem.
The poetesse seems to create a different atmosfere in te second tercetz.
The subject pronoun "I" contributes to give strenght and vigor to the speaking voice's point of view. In the first line of the second tercet.
The word "WORD" is capitalized and together with "I say" became the two more relevant words of the text. The semantic field of the poem is made up by "word" "said" "live" and it explains the message of the poem: if words do not have a life, if they don't live, they cannot live, the cannot be any comunication, not even the one of the poem itself.
The poetess asks for silence in the text, indeed there is the ripetition of the sound "s" in the poem.