Considering the title the reader may be curious to find out/discover the reason why the word 'is dead'.

The layout shows the poem belongs to the collection since the first line corresponds to the title of the text, thus underlining the concept ones again.

One more aspect you notice is that even if the poem simply consists of six lines, it is organised into two tercets and therefore the reader might be intrested in finding out the function of each.

What the poetess says is that some people think that once a word is pronounced, it dies. The second tercet espresses the speaking voice's point of view which is exactly the opposite of thecommon's people one.

The first striking element of the text is a sound effect which is chosen on porpone.The first two lines of the tercet exploita rhyme couplet ('dead') which creates a breake in the reading pace rainforced by the comma. The divices help/contribute to put the third line into evidence, in a few words the reader is now forced to focus her/his attention on the third line the function of which is to express the point of view of the common people. In addition there is a different even in line lenghtthat adds to what was said before and once again seems to isolet the third line from the preavius one. This seems to pave the way/anticipate what the speaking voice is going to do in the second part of the poem. Indeed, the poetees seems also to create a different atmophere in the second tercets as if she wanted to assert her point of view ('I say') more vigorously . The intelligent reader can notice that the key position of the subject pronoun 'I' contributes to give strenght and vigor to the speaking voice's point of view. Furthermore there is a chesura in the middle of the first line of the second tercet that highlights the poetess' idea, since the following run-on-line set the opinion that word s have a life and there own at the centre of the text. Besides the sound divices discussed so far, the reader can hear the destiny of the sound 'd' the' ans 's' in the poem. The repetition of sound 'd' is meant to put the lexical item 'word' you will relise that the 'word' and 'I say' become the two more relevant words of the text. Considering now the semantic field of the poem the reader easily understand they have always something to do with the process of comunication .The field is made up by 'word' 'sad' 'say' 'live' and it explains the message of the poem: if words do not have a life there can not be any comunication, not even the one of the poem itself. The poetees even asks for silence in the text- since silence is prerequisit to mutual understanding in that the sound 's' is repeated eight time in the economy of the poem as if the poem, as if the poetees were asking for silence, to deliever her message.

To put the message into a better focus the text also relise on the semantic field of time (whwn, just, begin,live,thet, day) and this aspect makes the intelligent reader understands that words, have a life on her own as poet and poetes particulary know. Their word last in time and always create new meaning whenever a reader reads them. In short, the poem is about the of the vitality words and comunication.