Write poetry and song lyrics by voice

Poems and songs arrive as sound before they're ever text, a line in the shower, a hook on a walk. Poetry & Lyrics in MakeVox is built to catch them the instant they come and hold them in your voice, with the lightest possible hand from the editor.

Start writing

Start a new story and choose Poetry & Lyrics. Keep each poem or song as its own section, and speak a line, a stanza, or a whole draft as it comes to you.

Write a song

Put a section label on its own line and MakeVox shapes the page as a song. It recognises these labels:

• [Verse] (or [Verse 2], [Verse 3])
• [Pre-Chorus]
• [Chorus]
• [Bridge]
• [Outro]

Write the chorus once. After that, a [Chorus] label with nothing under it repeats the last chorus you wrote, so you never paste the same lines three times, and a change to the chorus shows everywhere it repeats.

Syllables and rhyme in the margin

Each line shows its syllable count and a rhyme letter (A, B, A, B) in the margin, starting fresh with every stanza. Matching verses should sing to the same melody, so a line that runs long or short stands out at a glance. The counts are worked out on your device as you write: no AI, no credits. They're a guide for English spelling, not a ruling, so trust your ear when they disagree. Hide them any time with "Hide syllables & rhyme".

Keep the assist out of the way

Poetry is the last place you want a rewrite. Keep the dial on Shape (or lighter) so MakeVox only tidies obvious dictation slips and leaves your line breaks, word choices, and rhythm alone. The "% your voice" badge will read close to all you.

Ask your editor about a song and it listens like a songwriter: whether a line sings, where the hook lands, whether the repetition is earning its place, and whether verse two fits verse one's meter. It points at the line and leaves the fix to you, and it keeps your section labels exactly as you wrote them.

Hear it aloud

A poem is finished by ear. Use Listen to hear a piece read back, and adjust the lines until the sound is right.

Take your lyrics to a music tool

Press Copy lyrics above a song to copy it as plain text with its section labels and every chorus written out in full. That's the format most music tools, Suno among them, accept when you paste lyrics in. To take the whole collection, open Export and choose Lyrics (.txt): every song under its title, in order. MakeVox doesn't make the music; your lyrics are yours to take wherever you like.