• Can you paraphrase the text's meaning?
• What is the tone of the language?
• Do the words have any important connotations?
• What kinds of images are important?
• Do certain sensory elements (sight, sound, touch, smell, etc.) predominate?
• Are colors used in particular ways?
• Are any figures of speech used?
• Do any symbols or allegories exist?
• What kinds of sentences does the work favor?
• How important are sound effects? Metrics? Rhyme? Rhythm?
• Does the text contradict in any way?
• Are there disruptions where it is impossible to decide what is meant?

"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