Latest thought: that I should call "depictive structure" "rhetorical structure." How a poem's thought is organized. Actually, so as to avoid confusion with Treune's "structure," and the many other ways it is used, I should use my "deck," instead. Which I will. I can't remember what I was calling the deck where a poem's denotative meaning is laid out. A layer of the "verbal deck?" Too lazy to check. Today, I will call it the depictive deck. It's different from the rhetorical deck. The latter generalizes about what is said, the former says it. For instance, the rhetorical deck of Basho's old pond poem is image, counter image; its depictive deck is image of a quiet pond followed by an image of the sound a frog makes when it splashes into the pond.

A poem will have a connotational deck, too--or a connotational overlay in the depictive deck, by whatever name. Plus a formal deck differing from its melodational deck, the latter consisting of all of the poem's melodations, the former being a map of the formal patterning of its melodations--hence indicating only its end-rhymes, for example, not its scattered internal rhymes.