# Sections & song form > Sections in InnerHook, a lyrics writing app: verses, choruses and more with Enter twice, the / menu or a paste, named by the song form. Canonical: https://innerhook.com/docs/sections/ Last updated: 2026-10-06 A song in InnerHook is one page of text split into sections: Verse, Pre-Chorus, Chorus, Bridge, Intro, Outro, and Part for a section whose type isn't known yet. Each section has a label chip beside it, and the labels number themselves as you write. ## Where to find it Each section has a small gutter on its left with the **label chip** (for example *Chorus 1*), the version button (A, B or S, see [Versions & history](https://innerhook.com/docs/versions/)), **⋮** for the section's actions and a handle to drag it. A quiet **+** under the last section adds one at the end. ## Start a new section - **Enter twice.** Press Enter on an empty line and that blank line becomes the border between two sections. Pressing it on an empty line in the middle of a section splits the section there. - **The +** under the song adds a section at the end. - **The / menu.** Type `/` and pick a type (below). To join a section with the one above it, put the caret at its very start and press Backspace. ### Labels and the song form Labels are never typed: they come from the order of the song, so moving a chorus renumbers everything (*Verse 1*, *Chorus 1*, *Verse 2*, *Chorus 2*…). A Part is labelled just **Part**, with no number. A new section follows the usual song form: Verse, Chorus, Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Chorus, Outro, then Verse again. If the song already has a Pre-Chorus somewhere, a new section after a verse is a Pre-Chorus. If you'd rather every new section start as a Verse, open the song brief (**Settings** in the side panel) and under **Section types** choose **Always Verse** instead of **Follow the song form**. It's a setting of the song, so your co-writers get the same behaviour. ## Change a section's type 1. Click the section's label chip (or press Shift+Tab in its text to reach the chip, then ↓). 2. Pick a type from the menu: Verse, Pre-Chorus, Chorus, Bridge, Intro, Outro or Part. You can also pick a type under **Tools** in the side panel, or type `/` alone on an empty line of an otherwise empty section and choose from **Turn this section into…**. A type change is one undo step. ## The / menu Type `/` at the start of a line, or after a space, and a menu opens; keep typing to filter it ("/cho" finds Chorus, and Finnish names such as *kertosäe* work too). A `/` straight after a letter or number, as in *2/4*, stays a plain character. ↑/↓ move, Enter picks, Esc closes and keeps what you typed. - **Section** — the types. Heading **New section here…** starts a new section of that type where the caret is; **Turn this section into…** changes the current one. - **Write ✨** — **Continue writing**, **Write a verse here**, **Write a chorus here**, **Ideas**. These use AI (Claude); see [The Space menu](https://innerhook.com/docs/space-menu/). The same group has **Rhymes for "…"** and **Synonyms for "…"**, free word lists; see [Rhymes & synonyms](https://innerhook.com/docs/rhymes-synonyms/). - **This section** — **Duplicate section**, **Move up**, **Move down**, the other versions, **Version history**, **Rewrite section ✨**, **Comment on this line**, **Record an idea**, **Delete section**. - **Song** — **Autodraft ✨**, **Song brief**, **Hear it sung ✨**, **Detect structure**, **Preview**, **Write mode**, **Today's pages**. The last row is always **Close menu**. ## Move, duplicate and delete - **Drag** a section by its handle (the six dots) and drop it where the line shows. - **⋮ → Move up / Move down** does the same from the keyboard. - **/ → Duplicate section** puts a copy right after it. - **⋮ → Delete section** removes it; ⌘ Z (Ctrl+Z on Windows and Linux) brings it back. ## Paste a whole lyric Paste lyrics with blank lines between the stanzas and InnerHook splits them into sections. A header line in square brackets names the type: `[Verse 2]`, `[Chorus]`, `[Pre-Chorus]`, `[Bridge]`; `[Hook]` and `[Refrain]` count as a Chorus. A stanza without a header becomes a Chorus when the same words appear more than once in the paste, and a **Part** otherwise. A single stanza without a header simply joins the section you paste it into. Copied lyrics carry `[Verse 1]`-style headers, so they paste back the same way. To bring in whole files, see [Import lyrics](https://innerhook.com/docs/import/). ## Detect structure While the song has a Part, a line under the hint says **Some parts have no type yet.** with **Detect structure**. You'll also find **Detect structure** in the header's **⋮** and in the `/` menu. It works without AI, by a simple rule: - a section whose words appear more than once becomes a Chorus; - a Chorus whose words appear only once becomes a Verse, and so does every Part; - other types stay as they are. Fix a wrong guess from the chip, or undo it with ⌘ Z. ## Limits > **Limits** > > - Someone who can only read or comment on a shared song can't add, move or retype sections. > - Labels can't be renamed: they always come from the type and the order.