The following ideas, then, have been looked at in the analysis of Pope's'Epigram from the French':
The significance of genre in terms of the experienced reader's expectationsof a text's shape and purpose
The significance of external features of form such as the poem's title
The potential sigmificance of context, with regard to such things as what isalready known about an author, his previous works and/or the time ofwriting
The significance of repetition, variation and contrast.The same question that was used for the poem by Pope can apply againhere:
How do the form and language of this poem contribute to its effect onthe reader?The little ones leaped and shoutcd and laughedAnd all the hills echoed.