Poetry in music

We were listening to popular songs in this class, trying to find poetry in them. It turns out, almost every song is basically a poem, if you listen to the lyrics closely. Rhymes, imagery, everything that can be found in a regular poem is found in a song, too. Especially rap songs, which are like modern versions of poems. Lot of people say that they are bored by poetry, even though they like listening to rap, which is poetry with beat and some music. The videos really helped understanding the hidden meaning of these songs, but it also made it hard to interpret the songs in our on way.