* Give this poem to one of your word-smart friends and see if they can guess the answer. In lowercase, the answer may not be so evident to them, i.e., mondegreen.
https://www.dictionary.com/e/mondegreen/

A word or a phrase resulting from hearing another word or phrase (especially in a song, poem, or phrase) is a common phenomenon known as a mondegreen. A mondegreen typically sounds like the original, but the meaning is often entirely changed, with presumably amusing results.
https://www.dictionary.com/e/mondegreen/

Clues from/for this entry:
- life is but a dream (The last line from the nursery rhyme, Row, Row Your Boat.)
- "If there's something strange in your neighborhood Who you gonna call is from Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr. Gramatically, Whom would be the correct word for this mondegreen.
- Poem Title: In French the word monde translates as world(ly). In English green becomes greens. Hence, when you merge the two, you get Worldly Greens, i.e., mondegreen.

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