Are songs poems or are poems songs? I think they are both and a very good example of this is the hit song She's My Kinda Rain by Tim McGraw came out in the early 2000's and inspired many people. The similies of the song include "She sits quietly there like water in a jar" and "she's like sunset shadows" Also there are several metaphors such as "she's my kinda rain" and "she's my dreaming tree." There is plenty of repetition here as well. "Shes like..." is repeated many times. The mood is extremely romantic and mushy. There is also figurative language "..love in the drunken sky" is an excellent example. Imagery is present through out the song, comparing love to rain, and so forth. Country music always has lots of poetic devices in it, and it is evident that songs may also be considered as poems.


Tim McGraw - She's My Kinda Rain
She's my kind of rain
Like love in a drunken sky
She's confetti fallin down all night
Shes sits quietly there
Like water in a jar
Says baby why you tremblin like you are
So I wait... And I try
I confess like a child

Chorus
She's my kinda rain
Like love from a drunken sky
Confetti fallin down all night
She's my kind of rain

She's the sunsets shadows
She's like Rembrant's light
She's the history that's played at night
She's my lost companion
She's my dreamin' tree?
Together in this pre-eternity

Summer days Winter snows
She's all thanks to be home

She's my kind of rain
Like love from a drunken sky
Confetti fallin down all night
Yeah she's my kinda rain

So I wait and I try I confess all my crimes
she's my kind of rain
like love from a drunken sky
confetti fallin down all night
she's my kinda rain
She's my kinda rain
like love from a drunken sky
confetti fallin down all night
yeah she's my kind of rain
Rain on me!