Can music be poetry?

     Poetry started out being said to music and told stories about an experience or a major event that occur. Then poetry shifted away from that to become the written form on paper that we know today. Some people say that the music that we listen to also had poetry type qualities which is why we listen to it so often. 

     This week in my AP English class my teacher gave us the assignment to find a song that was sophisticated and was in a way like poetry. The song I chose was The Dog Days are Over by Florence and the Machine. This song makes me think of poetry because it does have a rhyming scheme to it. Yes rhyming doesn't always mean poetry but the words that are being sung have meaning behind them. They are telling a story about whom ever the speaker is. This story allows the audience to resonate with speaker just like in a poem on a piece of paper like Shakespeare. 

     I believe that poetry can come in many forms and whatever the form is just for the help of the reader, either so they can understand the words better or so that the reader will be able to remember the poem for a while. So yes, music can be poetry it sometimes just makes it easier to understand and is helpful in memorizing. So listen to some music it might just be poetry.