1. DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
“I BUILD WALLS”

2. I BUILD WALLS I build walls Walls that protect, Walls that shield,
Walls that say I shall not yield or reveal
Who I am or how I feel
Walls that hide
Walls that cover what’s inside,
Walls that stare or smile or look away, silent lies,
Walls that even block my eyes from the tears I might have cried
Walls that never let me truly touch
Those I love so very much
Walls that need to fall!
Walls meant to be fortresses are prisons after all

3. FORMAL LINKS of the POEM
Verb Form
Parallelism
Verb form
Examples
Total
Percentage
Present time
Build, protect, shield, etc 18
27,5 %
Past time
meant 1
Perfect
Have cried
Parallelism
Examples
Total
Percentage
Verb present + verb present
Walls that say I shall.... 1
15,2 %
Noun + verb present
Walls that protect, etc... 9
Verb present + perfect
Walls that even block my eyes....

4. FORMAL LINKS of the POEM
Referring Expression
Repetition
Anaphora
Examples
Total
Precentage
I = me
I could walls, walls that never let me truly touch 1
2.7 %
My = I
Walls that even block my eyes from the tears I might have cried
Repetition
Examples
Total
Percentage I
I build, I shall, I feel, I build, etc 7
31.5 %
Walls
I build walls, Walls that shield, etc 13
Build
I build walls 3

5. FORMAL LINKS of the POEM
Ellipsis
Conjunction
Ellipsis
Example
Total
Percentage
Walls that say I shall not yield or revel = walls that say I shall not yield or I shall revel 1
1.4 %
Conjunction
Examples
Total
Percentage
That
Walls that protect, walls that shield, etc 9
20.6 % Or
Who I am or how I feel, etc 4
Not
I shall not yield or reveal, etc 1
After
...are prison after all.

6. The analysis of poem
The biggest percentage is repetition aspect (31.5%).
The writer chose some words (I, walls, and build) to tell us that the writer needs to be alone because of love or sadness
I = the writer often used it to make stressed
Walls = to make it sure that he/she did it
Build = the writer’s doing

7. The analysis of poem
Even most of verb forms use verb present, but there is something interesting in the end of poem “WALLS MEANT TO BE FORTRESSES ARE PRISONS AFTER ALL”
(the writer never makes walls. The writer wishes had made walls, but the writer hadn’t)
The writer has big problem which the write keeps it secret, the writer doesn’t want to share for someone’s else
the writer prefers to build walls tahn to say what he/she fells
Finally the writer doesn’t make walls because of some reasons which the writer felt before.