Aristotle's Six Parts of Poetics
integrated with the modes of literary analysis

MELOS
The sound system of poetry.

SOUNDS
RHYTHMS
TONES (see VOICE) and IRONY

ETHOS
The set of values and behaviors associated with the persons in the poem.

CHARACTER and POINT OF VIEW

VOICE (see TONES)

LEXIS
The diction the poet uses to express the as-yet-unspoken.

SKENE
The scene or set of the poem: the time,  place, and cultural context of all that happens.

IMAGERY
METAPHOR and SIMILE
SYMBOLS

DIANOIA
The rationale by which the agents live and choose their actions, what literally goes through their minds and the poet's.

SENTENCES
REVISIONS

MYTHOS
The arrangement of the incidents into poetic discourse from the story which underlies it.

STORY and STRUCTURE
DISCOURSE and PLOT