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> For any mass audience to recognize any poem is (to put it mildly) unusual.

This isn't anywhere close to being true. Mass audiences routinely recognize poems; we call the phenomenon "popular music".

Except that if you investigate it turns out that most people don't actually listen to the song texts to any meaningful degree.

Yet they can sing the whole thing verbatim? How does that work?

Lexing vs parsing. ;)

And "Born in the USA" would fit perfectly in this discussion.