Source |
Song # |
Variant |
Text |
Quatrain Type |
Position within Quatrain |
Line Type |
Musical Time Signature |
Grid Type |
Non-final inversion |
Text is "May Morning" |
Remarks |
A |
3 |
B |
Pull / off that / silk, my / pretty Pol- / ly
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F3F3 |
1 |
F |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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inversion in a F position |
A |
3 |
F |
Come / rise you / up, my / pretty Pol- / ly
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4343 |
1 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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A |
3 |
F |
I'll / take you / to the / North Scot- / land
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4343 |
3 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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A |
3 |
H |
And / two of your / father's / best hor- / ses
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4343 |
3 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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A |
4 |
H |
He / look-ed / over his / left shoul- / der
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4343 |
1 |
4 |
x 3/2 |
ternary |
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A |
4 |
L |
Jury flower / get the / rose ber- / ry
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4444 |
1 |
4 |
varies, 2/2, 3/2 |
varies |
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A |
4 |
L |
The / jury hangs / over the / rose ber- / ry
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4444 |
3 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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A |
5 |
B |
There / lived an old /lady in the / north coun- / try
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4243 |
1 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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A |
5 |
D |
There / was an old / lady in the / north coun- / try
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4443 |
1,3,5 |
4 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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A |
5 |
I |
There / lived a / lord in the / old coun- / try
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4243 |
1 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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A |
5 |
J |
There / was an old / man in the / North Coun- / tree
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4433 |
1 |
4 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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A |
12 |
B |
I / want to / see my / pretty Su- / sie
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4343 |
3 |
4 |
x 6/4 |
ternary |
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A |
13 |
C |
Lord Bateman / was …. A noble- / man
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5555 |
1 |
5 |
x 3/2 |
ternary |
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A |
13 |
D |
They bored a / hole … in his left shoul- / der
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5555 |
1 |
5 |
x 3/2 |
ternary |
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A |
15 |
B |
The / queen of Galli- / lee
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6565 |
4 |
5 |
x 3/2 |
ternary |
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A |
15 |
C |
The / queen of Galli- / lee
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6565 |
4 |
5 |
x 3/2 |
ternary |
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A |
15 |
C |
The / queen of Galli- / lee
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6565 |
4 |
5 |
x 3/2 |
ternary |
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A |
17 |
B |
To / burn my / poor bo- / dy
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4343 |
4 |
3 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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Setting justified by rhyme (see/body). |
A |
17 |
B |
But / come to my / bury- / ing / |
4343 |
4 |
3 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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Setting justified by rhyme (ring/burying). |
A |
18 |
D |
As / Lady Mar- / gret was / going to / bed |
44443 |
1 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
x |
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A |
18 |
D |
But / who should it / be but her / true love Hene- / ry
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44443 |
1 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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A |
18 |
K |
For there's / ne'er a / doctor in / old Scot- / land
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4343 |
3 |
4 |
x 3/4 |
ternary |
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A |
18 |
L |
And the / pillow of / ivo- / ry / |
4343 |
4 |
3 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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A |
19 |
Bb |
Fair / Ellen / was a / fair la- / dy
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4343 |
3 |
4 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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A |
19 |
D |
Fair / Ellen- / der was a / gay young la- / dy
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4343 |
3 |
4 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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A |
19 |
K |
Lord / Thomas he / was a / bold fores- / ter
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4343 |
1 |
4 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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A |
19 |
K |
Lady / Helen she / was a / fair la- / dy
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4343 |
3 |
4 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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A |
19 |
S |
And / so I / charge you with / my bless- / ing
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4343 |
3 |
4 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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A |
19 |
V |
It's / I will / charge you with / my bless- / ing
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4343 |
3 |
4 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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A |
20 |
O |
Sweet / William a- / rose one / May mor- /ning
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4343 |
1 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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x |
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A |
20 |
Q |
Be- / tween . Lady Mar- . Gret and / you |
5454 |
4 |
4 (of 5454) |
x 3/2 |
ternary |
x |
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A |
22 |
B |
They sent them a- / way … to the north coun- / try
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4444 (3/2) |
3 |
4 (of 5454) |
x 3/2 |
ternary |
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A |
33 |
A |
She / soon run / through her / gay clo- / thing
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4G4G |
1 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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setting confirmed by Sharp n.d. |
A |
33 |
I |
And the / house wo- / man that she / did tell / him |
4G4G |
3 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
x |
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A |
35 |
A |
And I've / lately got / married to a / house carpen- / ter
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4343 |
3 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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A |
35 |
H |
Yes / I am / married to a / house carpen- / ter
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4343 |
3 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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A |
35 |
L |
O / I have / married a / queen's daugh- / ter
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4343 |
1 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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A |
35 |
L |
And / you have / married a / house carpen- / ter
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4343 |
3 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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A |
35 |
T |
It's / I could have / married a / queen's daugh- / ter
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4343 |
1 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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A |
35 |
V |
And / keep its / Papa compa- / ny / |
4343 |
4 |
3 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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A |
37 |
D |
She were / neat , hand- , some and / tall |
5555 |
3 |
5 |
x 3/2 |
ternary |
x |
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A |
39 |
C |
For / gentle my / Jenny my / rosama- / ree
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4444 |
2 |
4 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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A |
39 |
C |
As the / dew falls / over the / green val- / ley
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4444 |
4 |
4 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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A |
39 |
D |
For / gentle for / Jenny my / rosama- / ree
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4444 |
2 |
4 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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A |
39 |
D |
As the / dew falls / over the / green val- / ley
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4444 |
4 |
4 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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A |
41 |
A |
There / was a little / ship in the / South Ameri- / kee
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44 |
2 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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A |
41 |
B |
There / was a ship / sailed from the / North Ameri- / kee
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44443 |
1 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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Repeated in the same quatrain |
A |
41 |
B |
There / was a little / ship in the / North Ameri- / kee
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44 |
2 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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A |
41 |
F |
There / was a ship / a sailing / on the / North Ameri- / kee
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44 |
1 |
4 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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A |
41 |
G |
They / gave her the / name of the / silver fami- / ly
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4443 |
2 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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A |
41 |
K |
/ There was a / ship in the / north coun- / try
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4443, approx. |
1 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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"in the north" is repeated |
A |
41 |
K |
It / went by the / name of the / Bold Trini- / tee
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4443, approx. |
2 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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A |
42 |
A |
It's / I have a / wife in / South Ameri- / kee
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4343, approx. |
3 |
4 |
x 4/4, approx. |
binary |
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various measures stretched to 3/2 |
A |
48 |
E |
Near Bridgewa- / ter a rich man / lived |
5555 |
1 |
5 |
x 3/2 |
ternary |
x |
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A |
48 |
H |
Where . his bo- / dy . 0 was . Slain and / thrown |
5f55f5 |
4 |
5 |
x 3/2 |
ternary |
x |
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obligatory long note position |
A |
49 |
B |
And / him to his / trade was a / ship's carpen- / ter
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4444 |
4 |
4 |
x 3/4 |
ternary |
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A |
49 |
H |
For / her old / sweetheart was a / ship's carpen- / ter
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4444 |
4 |
4 |
x 3/4 |
ternary |
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A |
49 |
U |
For / her old sweet- / heart was a / ship's carpen- / ter
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4444 |
4 |
4 |
x 3/4 |
ternary |
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A |
56 |
H |
Down / on the / Ohi- / o / |
4343 |
4 |
3 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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a coarser analysis makes the stanza one 4444 quatrain instead 2 4343 |
A |
73 |
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I'm / going to / tell you my / sad desti- / ny
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4444 |
2 |
4 |
x 3/4 |
ternary |
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A |
74 |
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Which . Suited Bet- / sy . 0 to a . High de- / gree |
4444 (3/2) |
4 |
4 |
x 3/2 |
ternary |
x |
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A |
77 |
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To / see what I suf- / fered for your / sake |
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1 |
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x 3/2 and 2/2 |
ternary |
x |
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irregular meter |
A |
79 |
D |
My , sad and / mourn- , ful his- , to / ry
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4444 (3/2) |
2 |
4 (3/2) |
x 3/2 |
ternary |
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A |
94 |
C |
/ I walked , out , one / May mor- , ning . |
4444 (3/2) |
1 |
4 (3/2) |
x 3/2 |
ternary |
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x |
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A |
94 |
H |
As / I walked / out one / May mor- / ning
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4444 |
2 |
4 |
x 4/4 irreg. |
binary |
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E |
2 |
H |
/Hold your /tongue, my / pretty Pol- / ly
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4343 |
1 |
4 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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E |
2 |
H |
And the / bars of the / best iv'- / ry
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4343 |
4 |
3 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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E |
2 |
J |
O / hush, O / hush, my / pretty Pol- / ly
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4343 |
1 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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E |
2 |
J |
And your / perch of the / best i-vo-/ ry
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4343 |
4 |
3 |
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binary |
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E |
7 |
F |
I'll / bet you / twenty / pound, mas- / ter
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4343 |
1 |
4 |
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binary |
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E |
7 |
G |
He / pulled rings / off of / his fin- / gers
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4343 |
1 |
4 |
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binary |
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E |
10 |
A |
The/Queen of glo- / ry
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5454 |
4 |
4 |
x 3/4 |
ternary |
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E |
10 |
B |
The / Queen of Gali- / lee
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4343 |
4 |
3 |
x 3/4 |
ternary |
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E |
10 |
C |
The / Queen of Gali- / lee
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4343 |
4 |
3 |
x 3/4 |
ternary |
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E |
10 |
D |
The / Queen of Gali- / lee
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4343 |
4 |
3 |
x 3/4 |
ternary |
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E |
14 |
C |
Go / fetch to / me my / little neph- / ew
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4343 |
1 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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E |
15 |
C |
Be- / fore I / beg thee with / all my bless- / ing
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4343 |
3 |
4 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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E |
15 |
E |
This / brown la- / dy walked / to and / fro |
4343 |
1 |
4 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
x |
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E |
15 |
G |
Lord / Thomas he / was a / bold forest- / er
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4343 |
1 |
4 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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E |
15 |
G |
Fair E- / linda she / was a / fair wo- / man
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4343 |
3 |
4 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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E |
15 |
I |
Lord / Thomas he / was a / bold forest- / er
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4343 |
1 |
4 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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E |
15 |
I |
Fair / Ellinor / she was a / gay la- / dy
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4343 |
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4 |
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E |
19 |
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O / no, O / no, said / little Mus- / grove
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4343 |
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E |
25 |
C |
O I / sim you have / had some / ill sick- / ness
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4343 |
3 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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setting confirmed by Sharp 1916, #15 |
E |
25 |
C |
O / I have / had no / ill sick- / ness
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4343 |
3 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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setting confirmed by Sharp 1916, #15 |
E |
27 |
A |
Who / should ride / by but / Knight Wil- / liam
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4343 |
3 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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E |
28 |
B |
And / he went / out of a / May mor- / ning
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G343 |
3 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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E |
28 |
E |
And / he went / out one / May mor- / ning
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3343 |
3 |
4 |
x 2/2 |
binary |
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x |
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E |
28 |
H |
As / I walked / out one / May mor- /ning
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4G4G |
1 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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x |
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E |
28 |
K |
As / I walked / out one / May mor- /ning
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4G4G |
1 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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E |
31 |
H |
It / rains it / rains in / merry Scot- / land
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4343 |
1 |
4 |
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binary |
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E |
33 |
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And / blacksmiths to /ride in our / compa- / ny
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434f4 |
4 |
4 |
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ternary |
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E |
38 |
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In / merry Scot- / land there were / three |
4343 |
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ternary |
x |
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E |
38 |
A |
There / was three /brothers in / merry Scot- / land
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4343 |
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ternary |
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E |
38 |
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And in / merry Scot- / land there were / three |
4343 |
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ternary |
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E |
38 |
C |
There / was three /brothers in / merry Scot- / land
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E |
38 |
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In / merry Scot- / land there / lived three / brothers |
43XX |
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ternary |
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E |
38 |
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In / merry Scot- / land, in / merry Scot- / land
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ternary |
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E |
38 |
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In / merry Scot- / land, in / merry Scot- / land
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44XX |
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E |
38 |
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In / merry Scot- / land there were / three |
4363 |
3 |
6 |
x 3/4 |
ternary |
x |
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E |
38 |
G |
There / was three /brothers in / merry Scot- / land
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4363 |
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O / no, O / no, said / Henry Mar- / tin
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38 |
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There / liv-ed three / brothers in / merry Scot- / land
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4363 |
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E |
43 |
D |
She would / shun their / compa- / ny / |
G3G3 |
2 |
3 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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E |
43 |
D |
She would / shun their / compa- / ny / |
G3G3 |
4 |
3 |
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ternary |
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E |
43 |
E |
Lived / in the / west coun- / tree / |
G3G3 |
2 |
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ternary |
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E |
43 |
G |
There / was a / girl in / Westmin- / ster
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irreg. |
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ternary |
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E |
44 |
A |
A sailing / down all on the / coasts of / high Barba- / ry
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4444 |
4 |
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x 6/8 |
ternary |
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E |
44 |
B |
A coming / down along the / coasts of / Barba- / ree
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4444 |
4 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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E |
45 |
A |
O / I had a / ship in some / foreign coun- / try
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4444 |
1 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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E |
45 |
A |
And / she was called / after the / Golden Vani- / ty
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4444 |
2 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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E |
45 |
A |
I / fear she will be / taken by some / proud young ene- / my
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4444 |
3 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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E |
45 |
B |
My / father had a / ship in the / North Coun- / try
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4444 |
1 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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E |
45 |
B |
It's /called by the / name of the / Golden Vani- / ty
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4444 |
2 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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E |
52 |
A |
He / lived by his / trade of a / ship's carpen- / ter
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4444 |
4 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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E |
52 |
E |
In / Warwick in / Warwick in / Warwick- / shire
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4444 |
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4 |
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ternary |
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E |
52 |
E |
And / he for his / trade was a / ship's carpen- / ter
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4444 |
2 |
4 |
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ternary |
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E |
60 |
G |
It's / Hilson, / Gibson / and John- / son
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G343 |
3 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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inversion in F |
E |
64 |
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For 'tis / one of the /crudel/lest murde- / rers
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6464 |
3 |
6 |
x 3/4 |
ternary |
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odd placement |
E |
66 |
A |
And / on a / game / ... Keep /er we / find |
5555 |
3 |
5 |
x 3/2 |
ternary |
x |
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strict pause |
E |
72 |
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As / I walked / out one / May mor- /ning
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43G3 |
1 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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x |
inversion in F |
E |
74 |
A |
and the / favour was / granted to / charming Bet- /sy
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4444 |
4 |
4 |
x 3/4 |
ternary |
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E |
74 |
C |
You may / go and be / welcome, my / pretty Bet- / sy
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4444 |
4 |
4 |
x 3/4 |
ternary |
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E |
79 |
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And I / used her / gentil- / ly / |
F3F3 |
4 |
3 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
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E |
88 |
A |
You must / leave the / coun- te- / ree / |
4343 |
4 |
3 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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E |
88 |
A |
Or / shun his / compa- / ny / |
4343 |
4 |
3 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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E |
94 |
C |
As / I walked / out one / May mor- / ning
|
4343 |
1 |
4 |
x 5/4 |
quinquenary |
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x |
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E |
94 |
C |
As / I walked / forth one / May mor- / ning
|
4343 |
1 |
4 |
x 5/4 |
quinquenary |
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x |
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E |
94 |
C |
One / May mor- / ning be- / time / |
4343 |
2 |
3 |
x 5/4 |
quinquenary |
x |
x |
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E |
94 |
C |
One / May mor- / ning be- / time / |
4343 |
2 |
3 |
x 5/4 |
quinquenary |
x |
x |
|
E |
108 |
A |
One / May mor- / ning be- / time / |
4T4T |
2 |
T |
x 4/4 |
binary |
x |
x |
|
E |
108 |
A |
As / I walked / out one / May mor- / ning
|
4343 |
1 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
|
x |
|
E |
108 |
C |
One / May mor- / ning so / ear- / ly / |
4T4G |
2 |
T |
x 4/4 irreg. |
binary |
x |
x |
|
E |
108 |
C |
As / I walked / out one / May mor- / ning
|
4343 |
1 |
4 |
x 4/4 irreg. |
binary |
|
x |
|
E |
108 |
G |
One / May mor- / ning so / early / |
4T4T |
2 |
T |
x 4/4 |
binary |
x |
x |
|
E |
108 |
G |
As / I walked / out one / May mor- / ning
|
4343 |
1 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
|
x |
|
E |
119 |
|
Saying / I will be / married on a / Tuesday mor- / ning
|
4444 |
4 |
4 |
x 3/4 |
ternary |
|
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|
E |
121 |
B |
For to / pin up your / baby's / mu- se- / lins
|
4444 |
2 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
|
|
setting confirmed by Sharp 1916, #67 |
E |
129 |
|
It / is a jew- / el all / in my / eyes |
4444 |
3 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
x |
|
|
E |
131 |
A |
And I'll / take you to the / wars / that's in /High Germa- / ny
|
4444 |
4 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
|
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|
E |
131 |
B |
I'll / take you to the / war that's in / High Germa- / ny
|
4444 |
4 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
|
|
|
E |
131 |
C |
I'll / take you to the / cruel wars in / High Germa- / ny
|
4444 |
4 |
4 |
x 6/8 |
ternary |
|
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|
E |
132 |
|
You shall / hear the drums and the / trumpets sound / in the wars of High Germa- / ny
|
4444 |
4 |
4 |
x 3/4 |
ternary |
|
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|
E |
144 |
A |
Step- / ping up to her, think- / ing to gain her, |
5555 |
3 |
5 |
x 3/2 |
ternary |
x |
|
|
E |
144 |
A |
Step- / ping up to her, think- / ing to gain her, |
5555 |
3 |
5 |
x 3/2 |
ternary |
|
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|
E |
282 |
|
/ That's the / man for / old Eng- / land
|
444G 4444G |
6 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
|
|
setting confirmed by Sharp 1916, #88 |
E |
282 |
|
But / still he / found that / Trafal- / gar
|
444G 4444G |
3 |
4 |
x 4/4 |
binary |
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setting confirmed by Sharp 1916, #88 |
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Summary Statistics |
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Subsample |
Non-final inversions |
Total inversions |
Fraction of inversions final |
Fraction of inversions non-final |
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all lines |
22 |
147 |
0.850 |
0.150 |
|
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binary grid (=(2) in paper) |
6 |
64 |
0.906 |
0.094 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
"May morning" only |
5 |
18 |
0.722 |
0.278 |
|
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all but "May morning" |
17 |
129 |
0.868 |
0.132 |
|
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|
binary grid, omitting "May morning" |
3 |
48 |
0.938 |
0.063 |
|
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|
3/2 time |
7 |
17 |
0.588 |
0.412 |
|
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3/4 time |
4 |
26 |
0.846 |
0.154 |
|
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6/8 and 6/4 time |
2 |
33 |
0.939 |
0.061 |
|
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3/4, 6/8, 6/4 time together |
6 |
59 |
0.898 |
0.102 |
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