When it gets infected with earworms, rather than review our plans for the day, or lists of things to remember, the inner ear gets stuck on a few short bars of music or a couple of phrases from a song.

当人类内耳被耳朵虫感染的时候，它将不再重新反思一天的计划或者需要记忆的清单中的事物，而是被一个个短的音乐片段或者是一首歌里面的同一句歌词阻碍，下入了一遍又一遍的重复回环之中。

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The rhetoric of the words of a song shows the following aspects: rhythms, phrases and sentence types.

通俗歌曲歌词的修辞艺术表现在语音、词语、句式三个方面。

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Messiaen adds slithery harmonics to end phrases, as if a silken thread of light carries the song that connects the earthborn boulders and birds to a celestial afterworld.

NPR: Messiaen At 100: A Song For The Solar System