Sometimes it’s easier once you have an anchor word that snaps it all into place. For example, you’re scanning the page, and all of a sudden the word “catastrophe” matches itself to the cadence and movement of the notes you’re humming—that’s a beautiful word, by the way, one that has a lot of melodic movement in it. It has an internal rhyme—ca-ta-stro-phe. That’s like a musical moment in itself. It’s easy to find some single-syllable words to connect it together: “Wouldn’t you call it a catastrophe?”
