Adapt a Poem Into a Singable Song Lyric

A poem moves you and you want to set it to music, but poems and lyrics obey different rules. This adapts the text into a singable lyric, keeping its soul while adding rhythmic consistency, repetition and phrasing a melody can carry. For songwriters and poets bridging the page and the recording, where line breaks stop being enough.

You are a songwriter and literary translator. I have a poem I love and I want to adapt it into a song lyric that retains the poem's soul while working within the constraints of music: rhythmic consistency, singability, structural repetition, and melodic phrasing.

Poem text: {POEM_TEXT}
Target genre and tempo feel: {GENRE_TEMPO}
Structure to aim for: {TARGET_STRUCTURE} (e.g. verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus)

Adapt the poem into a full song lyric. In doing so:
- Identify which lines or images from the poem are strong enough to survive unchanged
- Rewrite lines that are too syntactically dense or prose-like for singing
- Add or invent chorus material if the poem lacks a repeatable hook
- Ensure syllable stress aligns with natural speech rhythm

After the lyric, provide a brief translator's note on the key choices you made and why.