For an exercise on writing to melodies, I'll consider Paul McCartney's "Eleanor Rigby". That name contains five syllables, with the first and fourth ones stressed. The song's other name, "Father Mackenzie", has the same stress pattern but reverses the number of syllables in the two words. The song's other two phrases with the same melody use four words with that stress pattern but varying syntax: "waits at the window" and "look at him working". Such melodic fragments can take many further forms with identical stress and varying syntax and word lengths, such as these I came up with: "down in the garden", "under the radar", "I never loved you", and "capitalism". (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 11 September 2025)