Songs At its most basic, a song is a short piece of music, usually with words. It combines melody and vocals, although some composers have written instrumental pieces, or musical works without words, that mimic the quality of a singing voice. The words of a song are called lyrics . Lyrics can include a series of verses, the longer sections of the song that tell the story, and a refrain, a short phrase repeated at the end of every verse. Songs can have a simple structure of one or two verses, or a more complex one with multiple verses and refrains . Songs usually have a meter or beat. Whether you sing or speak the lyrics, you can feel a pattern or pulse in the way the words move the song forward. 1. Goe and Catch a Falling Star 2. When I am dead, my dearest Goe and Catch a Falling Star John Donne’s work is divided into two main categories; love poems and divine poems. In love poems, Donne talks about women and their nature but he does not glorify their beauty. W