I agree with this, but it still doesn't take us any nearer to what exactly is the difference between a poem and a song lyric (without the musical overlay).
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Jamie McKendrick wrote:
Which goes back to my earlier point that the meter that plays off speech in poems is often lost when it turns into song. And vice versa, again to do with stress and rhythm, when a song is spoken there's a loss which not only the loss of musical accompaniment.
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