  We use Regge phenomenology to study the structure of the poles of the $N^*$
and $\Delta^*$ spectrum. We employ the available pole extractions from partial
wave analysis of meson scattering and photoproduction data. We assess the
importance of the imaginary part of the poles (widths) to obtain a consistent
determination of the parameters of the Regge trajectory. We compare the several
pole extractions and show how Regge phenomenology can be used to gain insight
in the internal structure of baryons. We find that the majority of the states
in the parent Regge trajectories are compatible with a mostly compact
three-quark state picture.
