This text would be categorized as poetry. While song lyrics can share similarities with poetry, "Sonnet 18" by William Shakespeare is a classical work of poetry that is structured in sonnet form.
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date
–"Sonnet 18,"
William Shakespeare
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