A line that reads like prose

Multiple clauses and a high word count make the transcription look prose-like. There is no fixed character limit; listen for musical line breaks and split only when supported by phrasing.

Convention: Transcribe line by line, not in paragraphs.

Example

[Verse]
I walked into the room, and everyone was talking; the lights were fading, while another story started and nobody stopped to breathe before the ending arrived.

In the workbench this reads: This line reads like several lyric lines combined.

[Verse]
A short lyric line

The fix

This finding has no automatic fix — resolving it is a judgment call, so the workbench points at the exact range and leaves the edit to you.

The convention and its limits

This check detects the pattern shown above. An accepted example passes this check; it is not a review of the whole transcription.

Source

The source cited by this check:

Individual lyric lines (opens in a new tab) verified 2026-08-12 Split prose-like transcription into lyric lines