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Song Lyrics as Poems

1. Pick three songs that you like and find the lyrics on-line. Try to pick ones that you feel have some poetic merit (there’s so many crappy ones). Copy and paste the lyrics on a word document and answer the following for each.

a) What is the song about? What does the title have to do with the song?

b) What message is the song trying to convey to the listener?

c) What three poetic sound devices can you find? Write the lines that you find each device in and explain.

d) What two figurative devices (metaphor, simile, personification) can you find in the lyrics? Write the lines and explain each one.

e) Are the lyrics written as lines of poetry? If not, how would you break the lines into lines of poetry?

2. After completing the above questions which of the three songs do you think has the best lyrics and why?

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