• What kind of work is the text? How does this shape the form it takes?
• What intended purpose of the work? How does this influence its structure or language?
• How is the work to be performed?
• Is it to be read silently? Sung?
• Does it need theatrical devices? Lights? Music? Costumes? Props?
• Is the time or place in which it is read seem important to its meaning?
• How is the audience expected to interact with the text?
• Can it be changed in any way and still be the same work?

"All manner of thing shall be well/ When the tongues of flame are in-folded/ Into the crowned knot of fire/ And the fire and the rose are one." -- T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding