Song structure

I was just thinking about song structure and what would be the best or preferable structure for a pop song. I use this:intro, verse, prechorus, chorus, verse, prechorus, chorus, middle8, chorus. What structure do you usually choose to use or does it vary according to song? And what structure do you recommend to those who have used only my choice of structure. Actually I have used also a bit simpler one long ago. It was intro, verse, prechorus, chorus, verse, prechorus, chorus X 2. I've probably used too much of the same structure so I could use a change. Of course one should use what feels natural but I would like to hear some recommendations for my next 'huge hit'.
kakku

Thank you for your good reply. I agree with what you say. I need to try something less planned sometimes. I listened to the song Footsteps in the hall and it sounded very professionally made.
kakku

well i just go with the flow of the song. usally intro/chorus/hook/verse/chorus/verse/bridge....ect

If you want to use song structure then you should learn all the different forms. The standard verse, pre-chorus and chorus is simple enough but there are many different forms from many different periods. The bottom line is there is no song structure but what you make of it. You don't even have to have structure at all. Through composing is music without structure though many are unaware of it, or dismiss it because of it's lack of form.
 
Here are a few forms you may not be aware of.
Sonata, Rondo, Aria, March, 12 bar blues, 32 bar blues, Cantata, Invention. I'm sure Larry Alex knows a lot more on the subject of form. Hopefully he'll chime in. You can come up with your own form. BTW - When I say form, I mean structure. Some will say that you can't go by those rules but there are no rules. There is only a way of explaining what has been done.
 
HTH

If you want to learn song structure: Beatles, Beatles, Beatles.  Listen to The Beatles, read their sheet music and use Allan Pollack's (musicologist) on-line analysis of all The Beatles tracks.  There is no rules when it comes to song structure.  You can even use old forms such as sonata (main theme, development and recapitulation of main theme...Beethoven's sonata's were different to Mozart's so even within classical structure there is no hard and fast rules, the only rules within sonatas is the above) within popular song structure, if you know Pink Floyd or King Crimson they use "sonata" form in tracks like Starless (KC) Echoes and Atom Heart Mother (PF).  Then there is super simple song structure for example binary (two themes repeated) or ternary (three themes repeated) a personal favourite and actually all pop songs riff off the binary and ternary structure.  Oh middle 8 can be middle 16 or even middle 32, see no rules!!
 
PS, then there is the one chord song, Tomorrow Never Knows, Beatles again and very popular in in Indian folk music.    
 
Ben

I heard an interview with Paul Mccartney and he said that their main influence were Rodgers and Hammerstein.