As someone who went through a Lit. program, I would hope to God they don't.
Too often poetry gets confused with "a bunch of words that rhyme. Anything with a rhyme scheme." Its not. In fact rhyming is for simpletons in poetry. No song-writers are ever asked if they considered themselves novelists, or journalists.
I don't understand where this concept comes from (my guess is the ****ing rhyming) but any song-writer who considers themselves a poet either doesn't know what poetry is or is a self-obsessed twat.
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