From the Merriam-Webster dictionary
Shorter poems of intense feeling and emotion. Some are modern free verse poems and others are more “old-fashioned” poems that have rhythm and rhyme. Types: sonnet, ode, and elegy.
Oh Caption! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
"Poetic Devices in Songs." Online Video Clip. YouTube. YouTube. 9 Feb 2015. Web. 15 Feb 2016. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARtyFaDP2U4>
The Difference Between Song Lyrics and Poetry
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Suzanne by Leonard Cohen
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My Father by Judy Collins
I am a Rock by Simon and Garfunkel
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