When I read various fiction books, I occasionally find so called songs in the stories. I usually blow through these because, one, I detest poetry, and two, they come across to me as poetry, not song lyrics. Just for excrement and merriment, I will occasionally try setting one to a tune and give up quickly because the scan gets too complex in a hurry or just feels awkward.

One exception is a book I've read on a yearly basis for God only knows how long is Kenneth Grahame's "Wind in the Willow." In one scene, Mole and Ratty are caroled to by some field mice and the song they sing is in the book. For years, I blew past this because of my aversion to poetry (there's nothing wrong with poetry, it's just a personal taste thing) until a handful of years ago I actually read it and was blown away by the message it had! Even more, if FELT like a song so I tried putting it to music. It was unbelievably easy. The scan was perfect for every verse, no having to tweak the notation to allow for having one syllable in a place in a verse and two syllables in the same place in another verse, etc.

To answer the original unasked question, yes I feel poetry does not automatically qualify as lyrics; indeed, most of the time it does not. As far as the lyrics boards go, I never visit them so I can't comment on the content there.

Jeannie