The article focuses on the analysis of poems and songs and emphasizes their structural aspects, focusing on the graphic-visual, sound, morphosyntactic and semantic levels, in order to reach interpretation, in which the reader's involvement is exposed. To demonstrate that the poetic text results, as stated by Vinícius de Moraes, from a construction work that does not depend on literary periods, the chosen poems reflect a progression within the scope of Brazilian literature and cover texts ranging from the 19th century to modernity. The theoretical framework used finds in Norma Goldstein, Juracy Assmann Saraiva, Ernani Mügge, Gabriela Hoffmann Lopes and Tatiane Kaspari the bases for the analysis and interpretation of texts, whose method is in...