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This is a great example of a clearly very bad poem that would sound "good enough" to people. Some things rhyme, but there's very clearly no plan.



That definition covers 90% of popular hip-hop, pop and r&b.


I would argue that 99% of popular songs have fairly poor quality lyrics (though it doesn't really matter with regard to artistic merit of the finished product). Singer-songwriters in folk-adjacent genres such as Joni Mitchell, Sufjan Stevens, and Don McLean come closest to actual poetry IMHO.


Yeah, the 1st, 2nd, and 4th, lines are very clunky and sound horrible read aloud with oddly placed syllables. The "view" and "choose" rhyme is horrible (the 3rd line's first rhyme is barely a rhyme at all). The line breaks are just as bad with poor examples of enjambment.




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