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The purpose of this research is to analyze Korean lyrics in songs based on phonological prosodic structures including intonational phrases (IP) and accentual phrases (AP). In this analysis, I want to show how the listener of the Korean expressions included in a song could comprehend each character, word, and phrase without any confusion. As long as a composer understands how a person can grasp even the smallest character, it is able to arrange it at the right spot with the proper melodic and rhythmic pattern. Until now, most musicians have not paid attention to whether the listener of their songs might easily miss the right content lyrics because of the lack of systematic distribution of characters, words, and phrases in the correct positions of melody and rhythm. In this paper, I attempt to find whether a person can still recognize the fluctuations of pitch and length in the prosodic constituents. For the aim of the study, I performed two experiments in which the subjects participating in the test must answer a questionnaire designed as a listening test. Through the test I came up with five findings that will help the composers apply the ideas when they start to arrange characters, words, and phrases. The scores in which the linguistic ideas are reflected can show two advantages. First, the listener of a song will understand the content of a song more clearly. Second, singers of a song can transfer the message of the song to the same extent as the composer intended from the outset. I will conclude that, although we have not attended to the phonological prosodic structures for the efficiency of composing a song, from now on we must reconsider the essential role of linguistic analysis in order to fulfill the actual aim of lyrics alignment corresponding to musical melodies and rhythms.