[Suzerain of Sheol]

I find music a very tricky question. For one thing, I am not a musician. :P

But, seriously, I can only appreciate music as a layman, and I feel that when it comes to the "poetry" of music, the sounds is even more a part of it than the lyrics. I tend to shy away from trying to analyze music the way I would a poem, since it would sort of be like trying to analyze a poem in a foreign language to me (perhaps one I had a rudimentary understanding of).

I do think music is a kind of poetry, though. I'd almost call it a three-dimensional form of poetry, or perhaps two branches of the evolutionary tree of "art".

Now, there's a debate to be had over whether lyrics in music count for as much as the words in a poem, since they're only part of the whole, and I'm honestly not sure how I come down on that one. I tend to look at music from a very lyrics-focused perspective, because of my background in literature and poetry, so to me, they do seem very significant, but there's no ignoring the fact that if you're just reading the lyrics to a song, you're not getting the entire experience, or at least not experiencing it as the artist intended.

A very interesting point, and a difficult distinction. If you wanted to complicate it even farther, you could throw poetry that is written around the idea of being read aloud into the mix. :P