Egyptian poetry was fairly well developed. I started getting into it because of the rhyming quality:

Hma:s Xa:r xiti:u Ha:ru ti:u
sitting under the sails on a windy day

As an aside, the "X" is a softer "x" (kh) sound that became "sh" in later Egyptian, whereas the "H" was just an emphatic "h" (like in Arabic today). The vowel values are based on my reconstructions, which reduce the vowels from Coptic according to the system set up by Vergote and with reference to Vycichl's Dictionnaire Etymologique de la Langue Copte, Peust's poorly-named Egyptian Phonology, Loprieno's book Ancient Egyptian, Muchiki's Egyptian Proper Names and Loan Words in North West Semitic and Hoch's Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts, as well as reference to group writing methods employed in the Ptolemaic Period through a dictionary of the same.