>>7281281You are pulling it out of your ass. The reasons we like poetry and music are the same: not the lyrics but the rhythm and overall sound.
However, poetry and rhyme are how we learn language best, because we are naturally attuned to rhythm and similar sounds, which poetry deliberately contrives to have more of than in conventional prose. Natural speech is important for learning grammar and syntax in children, but for learning to write, learning vocabulary, and learning pronunciation: poetry is superior.
Most people fall out of love with poetry once they develop past the early rhymes and rhythms and find a gap where it become at the same time too simplistic and too complex; we try to reject the form as being something anyone can do, while at the same time wondering why all of the vocabulary has become too complex for us to comprehend along with messing with our syntax. Isn't that just rhymes with pretentious ways of forming sentences and thoughts we won't use everyday? It's like trying to teach a child what a shoe is while they know what a shoe is, they just want the rhyme about the shoe because it sounds pleasant all together. Only as adults attuned to speech with natural grammar and syntax, with less rhyme and reason, we rebel against the sound, and try to attack the grammar, syntax, vocabulary, which we think we know better than any rhyme could teach us, for rhymes are always for lessons we have already learnt in language in our revision of our lives. We think the rhyme is too simple, and that anything we didn't already know could not be taught to us, like the child who has outgrown needing its mother to point at her shoe every time she tells of the old woman who lived in one because the child did not understand most of the demonstrative incidences of the word.
Lyricism in text is still based in the principles we use to construct poetry: assonance and the repetition of other sounds are things which grease listeners ears but, they are well enough greased in adulthood that listeners often have no idea they have been following on rails since birth.
Nietzsche has a humorous quote on the subject:
>They say evil men have no songs? How is it that Russians have songs?Russians have songs because, like the Irish, the entirety of the language is based around the advantages of assonance. Unlike the English hodgepodge of letters which makes up the grammar and vocabulary and syntax portions, which gain more emphasis as we grow away from needing rhyme, Russian pairs vowels by male and female internally in words, and poetry permeates the language past the child's initial discarding of rhyme for meaning.
