This particular form of criticism has been performed on one of my recent blog posts ' Pictures of Home' by Freda Davis.
Personally I got a lot out of it and thought it was spot on. I have reproduced it below for others to see in an abreviated form. Winston

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PICTURES OF HOME

Copper top pop tart,
carries her toys
in a suitcase on trains.

A silver heart riptide
purges herself
of the rust of the past.
Minding the gap
to a future in chrome.

Firethorn flipside
dredging for dreams.
Remembered from
monochrome scenes.

Bearly dragging teddy in tow
She’s shading her eyes
against the glow
of a runaway
tunnelling locomotive.

And yet, at five and a half,
her thoughts are yet to ripen,
her memories yet to peel till…

The end.


SEMANTIC ANALYSIS -

Copper top- Red Hair?
Pop tart – sweet food, father’s girl, (tart?)
Toys in a suitcase- her travelling life.
Trains.
Silver heart- value laden love (silver-train metallic)
Riptide- force of nature
Purges (of what?) herself
Of the rust of the past.- troubles survived
Mind the gap- train idiom
Chrome- train imagery. Future better.

Firethorn? Flipside? Music reference?
Dredging for dreams- mechanical, machinery image, seeking the past
Monochrome- chrome echo, metallic but also old photographs.
Dragging Teddy- tired?
Shading her eyes- looking for father?
Against the glow- sun?
Train image- runaway- she is caught up in forces she can’t control.
Tunneling.- hidden menace.

Yet- he observes how young she is, time again. Ripen and peel- images of fruit –
Memories- peeling. Will she change her understanding of the situation?
The End-
Sudden and final. But what end?

METALIC AND ACHINERY IMAGERY - Copper, silver, rust, chrome, monochrome, trains, mind the gap, dredging, glow, runaway, tunneling, locomotive.

EMOTIVE WORDS - Tart, toys, heart, purges, minding, dreams, scenes, dragging, in tow, shading her eyes, thoughts, memories.

TIME IMAGERY - The rust of the past,A future in chrome, Remembered, Yet to ripen,Yet to peel.

PATTERN -

Internal rhyme, alliteration and consonantal chime helps to integrate the stanzas.
Copper top, pop,
Tart, heart.
Rust past,
Chrome, monochrome
Top -tart -toys –tide -trains -teddy -tow
Dredging dreams dragging

DISCUSSION -

The Subject is indirectly referred to throughout. The most imaginative leaps are in these phrases.
She is more directly present in the simple nominal groups where she is object: herself, her toys, her eyes.
A subversive and threatening presence is represented by the dangers around the train, summarised in the phrase ‘minding the gap’

Most of the verbal groups are simple verbs in present and continuous present tense: ( -ing form)
This makes the whole action suspend as the narrator appears to be watching the child climb off the train and search for someone. We are left to guess that this is the case. We observe the contrast between the vulnerability of the child and the mechanical, noisy world around her.
We infer the relationship from the terms used to describe her, but even these are slippery and cryptic.

The ebb and flow of the threatening world sweeps past her in the vigorous prepositional groups, marking time past and future, dreams, fears, hopes, colour and glow and monochrome.

And the structure of the last stanza creates a little drama of its own:
Yet-yet-yet-till…the end.