If you write lines that convey the sense of words in a rhythm we love to sing, you’ve made something unforgettable! That powerful double punch when songwriters harness the natural rhythm of words with their meanings means lyrics can stick in our memories forever.

That’s because any word in English with two or more syllables has its own inherent rhythm or pattern of stress. 

Some syllables are stressed more strongly (/) than their ‘weaker’ wordmates  (x). Like butter. The first syllable but- is more strongly…