Today’s main point of poetry is music. One example of poetry in music is “The Show Must Go On” by Queen. In this song we can find poetic elements like the following: a couplet, simile, and a thematic statement.
This song contains a couplet; a couplet is a pair of successive lines endings must rhyme with one another. “ Another hero, another mindless crime. Behind the curtain, in the pantomime.” We can find this quote in the song. Crime and Pantomime endings rhyme and they are a pair of successive lines.
We can also find a simile. A simile is two unlike things being compared using “like” or “as”. In the quote, “ My soul is painted like the wings of a butterflies.” we can find a simile. Soul is being compared to wings