"Only Time," by Enya, is a song that does contain the same form, meaning, language, sound, and rhythm that can a poem. As a lyric poem, it expresses emotion, feeling, and personal thoughts. The poem is didactic, the primary purpose of which is to expose and illustrate the beliefs of the speaker. Consisting of such a speaker, who asks a long series of rhetorical questions, the speaker then proceeds to answer her own questions with a single, simple answer: "only time." It does not represent a dialogue, however, or an apostrophe for that matter, since these questions are not intended to invoke any sort of reaction or response from anyone. Instead, the speaker is, in a sense, attempting to teach the reader.

Repetition, defined as the act or process of reiterating with the intention of bringing about effect, in this case, is used to catch and sustain the...