Songwriting – How one can Use the Size of Your Lyrics As a Device to Write Higher Songs

The size of your lyrical strains may be a good way to create a way of accelerating, or decelerating, by altering the road size you’ve got beforehand established. Let us take a look at an instance. Try this part of lyrics: 

Go away all of them behind

Whipping previous

Cannot be final

Flying quick 

You will discover a sure size was established within the first line, after which it was shortened, which made the following three strains really feel quicker. The size of a line may very well be outlined by the variety of harassed syllables, or accents in every line. So let’s take a look at the stresses. I am going to put the variety of stresses in parenthesis after every line:

LEAVE them ALL be-HIND (3)

WHIPP-ing PAST (2)

CAN’T be LAST (2)

FLY-ing FAST (2) 

You may see by establishing our part to have three harassed syllables within the first line, it makes the following three strains with solely two stresses really feel quicker. There’s additionally prosody occurring because the final three strains are about velocity.

Alternatively, we might additionally decelerate a line, by establishing a sure size, after which rising it. Let’s modify our pervious lyrics to say this:

Whipping previous

Cannot be final

Flying quick

However I ate their mud once more

If we take a look at the stresses, we’ll see the lyrics do that: 

WHIPP-ing PAST (2)

CAN’T be LAST (2)

FLY-ing FAST (2)

However I ATE their DUST a-GAIN (3)

On this case, you may see by rising the size of the final line, we have slowed it all the way down to create prosody with what the lyric is saying. This can be a nice technique to have your lyrics tie into what your music is doing.