| 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 | F3F3 | 1 | F | x 6/8 | ternary | inversion in a F position | ||
| A | 3 | F | Come / rise you / up, my / pretty Pol- / ly | 4343 | 1 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| A | 3 | F | I'll / take you / to the / North Scot- / land | 4343 | 3 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| A | 3 | H | And / two of your / father's / best hor- / ses | 4343 | 3 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| A | 4 | H | He / look-ed / over his / left shoul- / der | 4343 | 1 | 4 | x 3/2 | ternary | |||
| A | 4 | L | Jury flower / get the / rose ber- / ry | 4444 | 1 | 4 | varies, 2/2, 3/2 | varies | |||
| A | 4 | L | The / jury hangs / over the / rose ber- / ry | 4444 | 3 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| A | 5 | B | There / lived an old /lady in the / north coun- / try | 4243 | 1 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| A | 5 | D | There / was an old / lady in the / north coun- / try | 4443 | 1,3,5 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| A | 5 | I | There / lived a / lord in the / old coun- / try | 4243 | 1 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| A | 5 | J | There / was an old / man in the / North Coun- / tree | 4433 | 1 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| A | 12 | B | I / want to / see my / pretty Su- / sie | 4343 | 3 | 4 | x 6/4 | ternary | |||
| A | 13 | C | Lord Bateman / was …. A noble- / man | 5555 | 1 | 5 | x 3/2 | ternary | |||
| A | 13 | D | They bored a / hole … in his left shoul- / der | 5555 | 1 | 5 | x 3/2 | ternary | |||
| A | 15 | B | The / queen of Galli- / lee | 6565 | 4 | 5 | x 3/2 | ternary | |||
| A | 15 | C | The / queen of Galli- / lee | 6565 | 4 | 5 | x 3/2 | ternary | |||
| A | 15 | C | The / queen of Galli- / lee | 6565 | 4 | 5 | x 3/2 | ternary | |||
| A | 17 | B | To / burn my / poor bo- / dy | 4343 | 4 | 3 | x 4/4 | binary | Setting justified by rhyme (see/body). | ||
| A | 17 | B | But / come to my / bury- / ing / | 4343 | 4 | 3 | x 4/4 | binary | 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 | ||
| A | 18 | D | But / who should it / be but her / true love Hene- / ry | 44443 | 1 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| A | 18 | K | For there's / ne'er a / doctor in / old Scot- / land | 4343 | 3 | 4 | x 3/4 | ternary | |||
| A | 18 | L | And the / pillow of / ivo- / ry / | 4343 | 4 | 3 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| A | 19 | Bb | Fair / Ellen / was a / fair la- / dy | 4343 | 3 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| A | 19 | D | Fair / Ellen- / der was a / gay young la- / dy | 4343 | 3 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| A | 19 | K | Lord / Thomas he / was a / bold fores- / ter | 4343 | 1 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| A | 19 | K | Lady / Helen she / was a / fair la- / dy | 4343 | 3 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| A | 19 | S | And / so I / charge you with / my bless- / ing | 4343 | 3 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| A | 19 | V | It's / I will / charge you with / my bless- / ing | 4343 | 3 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| A | 20 | O | Sweet / William a- / rose one / May mor- /ning | 4343 | 1 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | x | ||
| A | 20 | Q | Be- / tween . Lady Mar- . Gret and / you | 5454 | 4 | 4 (of 5454) | x 3/2 | ternary | x | ||
| A | 22 | B | They sent them a- / way … to the north coun- / try | 4444 (3/2) | 3 | 4 (of 5454) | x 3/2 | ternary | |||
| A | 33 | A | She / soon run / through her / gay clo- / thing | 4G4G | 1 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | 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 | ||
| A | 35 | A | And I've / lately got / married to a / house carpen- / ter | 4343 | 3 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| A | 35 | H | Yes / I am / married to a / house carpen- / ter | 4343 | 3 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| A | 35 | L | O / I have / married a / queen's daugh- / ter | 4343 | 1 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| A | 35 | L | And / you have / married a / house carpen- / ter | 4343 | 3 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| A | 35 | T | It's / I could have / married a / queen's daugh- / ter | 4343 | 1 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| A | 35 | V | And / keep its / Papa compa- / ny / | 4343 | 4 | 3 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| A | 37 | D | She were / neat , hand- , some and / tall | 5555 | 3 | 5 | x 3/2 | ternary | x | ||
| A | 39 | C | For / gentle my / Jenny my / rosama- / ree | 4444 | 2 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| A | 39 | C | As the / dew falls / over the / green val- / ley | 4444 | 4 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| A | 39 | D | For / gentle for / Jenny my / rosama- / ree | 4444 | 2 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| A | 39 | D | As the / dew falls / over the / green val- / ley | 4444 | 4 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| A | 41 | A | There / was a little / ship in the / South Ameri- / kee | 44 | 2 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| A | 41 | B | There / was a ship / sailed from the / North Ameri- / kee | 44443 | 1 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | Repeated in the same quatrain | ||
| A | 41 | B | There / was a little / ship in the / North Ameri- / kee | 44 | 2 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| A | 41 | F | There / was a ship / a sailing / on the / North Ameri- / kee | 44 | 1 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| A | 41 | G | They / gave her the / name of the / silver fami- / ly | 4443 | 2 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| A | 41 | K | / There was a / ship in the / north coun- / try | 4443, approx. | 1 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | "in the north" is repeated | ||
| A | 41 | K | It / went by the / name of the / Bold Trini- / tee | 4443, approx. | 2 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| A | 42 | A | It's / I have a / wife in / South Ameri- / kee | 4343, approx. | 3 | 4 | x 4/4, approx. | binary | various measures stretched to 3/2 | ||
| A | 48 | E | Near Bridgewa- / ter a rich man / lived | 5555 | 1 | 5 | x 3/2 | ternary | x | ||
| A | 48 | H | Where . his bo- / dy . 0 was . Slain and / thrown | 5f55f5 | 4 | 5 | x 3/2 | ternary | x | obligatory long note position | |
| A | 49 | B | And / him to his / trade was a / ship's carpen- / ter | 4444 | 4 | 4 | x 3/4 | ternary | |||
| A | 49 | H | For / her old / sweetheart was a / ship's carpen- / ter | 4444 | 4 | 4 | x 3/4 | ternary | |||
| A | 49 | U | For / her old sweet- / heart was a / ship's carpen- / ter | 4444 | 4 | 4 | x 3/4 | ternary | |||
| A | 56 | H | Down / on the / Ohi- / o / | 4343 | 4 | 3 | x 6/8 | ternary | a coarser analysis makes the stanza one 4444 quatrain instead 2 4343 | ||
| A | 73 | I'm / going to / tell you my / sad desti- / ny | 4444 | 2 | 4 | x 3/4 | ternary | ||||
| A | 74 | Which . Suited Bet- / sy . 0 to a . High de- / gree | 4444 (3/2) | 4 | 4 | x 3/2 | ternary | x | |||
| A | 77 | To / see what I suf- / fered for your / sake | 1 | x 3/2 and 2/2 | ternary | x | irregular meter | ||||
| A | 79 | D | My , sad and / mourn- , ful his- , to / ry | 4444 (3/2) | 2 | 4 (3/2) | x 3/2 | ternary | |||
| A | 94 | C | / I walked , out , one / May mor- , ning . | 4444 (3/2) | 1 | 4 (3/2) | x 3/2 | ternary | x | ||
| A | 94 | H | As / I walked / out one / May mor- / ning | 4444 | 2 | 4 | x 4/4 irreg. | binary | x | ||
| E | 2 | H | /Hold your /tongue, my / pretty Pol- / ly | 4343 | 1 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| E | 2 | H | And the / bars of the / best iv'- / ry | 4343 | 4 | 3 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| E | 2 | J | O / hush, O / hush, my / pretty Pol- / ly | 4343 | 1 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| E | 2 | J | And your / perch of the / best i-vo-/ ry | 4343 | 4 | 3 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| E | 7 | F | I'll / bet you / twenty / pound, mas- / ter | 4343 | 1 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| E | 7 | G | He / pulled rings / off of / his fin- / gers | 4343 | 1 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| E | 10 | A | The/Queen of glo- / ry | 5454 | 4 | 4 | x 3/4 | ternary | |||
| E | 10 | B | The / Queen of Gali- / lee | 4343 | 4 | 3 | x 3/4 | ternary | |||
| E | 10 | C | The / Queen of Gali- / lee | 4343 | 4 | 3 | x 3/4 | ternary | |||
| E | 10 | D | The / Queen of Gali- / lee | 4343 | 4 | 3 | x 3/4 | ternary | |||
| E | 14 | C | Go / fetch to / me my / little neph- / ew | 4343 | 1 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| E | 15 | C | Be- / fore I / beg thee with / all my bless- / ing | 4343 | 3 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| E | 15 | E | This / brown la- / dy walked / to and / fro | 4343 | 1 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | x | ||
| E | 15 | G | Lord / Thomas he / was a / bold forest- / er | 4343 | 1 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| E | 15 | G | Fair E- / linda she / was a / fair wo- / man | 4343 | 3 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| E | 15 | I | Lord / Thomas he / was a / bold forest- / er | 4343 | 1 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| E | 15 | I | Fair / Ellinor / she was a / gay la- / dy | 4343 | 1 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| E | 19 | O / no, O / no, said / little Mus- / grove | 4343 | 1 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | ||||
| E | 25 | C | O I / sim you have / had some / ill sick- / ness | 4343 | 3 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | setting confirmed by Sharp 1916, #15 | ||
| E | 25 | C | O / I have / had no / ill sick- / ness | 4343 | 3 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | setting confirmed by Sharp 1916, #15 | ||
| E | 27 | A | Who / should ride / by but / Knight Wil- / liam | 4343 | 3 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| E | 28 | B | And / he went / out of a / May mor- / ning | G343 | 3 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | x | ||
| E | 28 | E | And / he went / out one / May mor- / ning | 3343 | 3 | 4 | x 2/2 | binary | x | ||
| E | 28 | H | As / I walked / out one / May mor- /ning | 4G4G | 1 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | x | ||
| E | 28 | K | As / I walked / out one / May mor- /ning | 4G4G | 1 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | x | ||
| E | 31 | H | It / rains it / rains in / merry Scot- / land | 4343 | 1 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| E | 33 | And / blacksmiths to /ride in our / compa- / ny | 434f4 | 4 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | ||||
| E | 38 | A | In / merry Scot- / land there were / three | 4343 | 3 | 4 | x 3/4 | ternary | x | ||
| E | 38 | A | There / was three /brothers in / merry Scot- / land | 4343 | 1 | 4 | x 3/4 | ternary | |||
| E | 38 | C | And in / merry Scot- / land there were / three | 4343 | 3 | 4 | x 3/4 | ternary | x | ||
| E | 38 | C | There / was three /brothers in / merry Scot- / land | 4343 | 1 | 4 | x 3/4 | ternary | |||
| E | 38 | D | In / merry Scot- / land there / lived three / brothers | 43XX | 1 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | x | ||
| E | 38 | F | In / merry Scot- / land, in / merry Scot- / land | 44XX | 1 | 4 | x 3/4 | ternary | x | ||
| E | 38 | F | In / merry Scot- / land, in / merry Scot- / land | 44XX | 1 | 4 | x 3/4 | ternary | |||
| E | 38 | G | In / merry Scot- / land there were / three | 4363 | 3 | 6 | x 3/4 | ternary | x | ||
| E | 38 | G | There / was three /brothers in / merry Scot- / land | 4363 | 1 | 4 | x 3/4 | ternary | |||
| E | 38 | H | O / no, O / no, said / Henry Mar- / tin | 4363 | 1 | 4 | x 3/4 | ternary | |||
| E | 38 | I | There / liv-ed three / brothers in / merry Scot- / land | 4363 | 1 | 4 | x 3/4 | ternary | |||
| E | 43 | D | She would / shun their / compa- / ny / | G3G3 | 2 | 3 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| E | 43 | D | She would / shun their / compa- / ny / | G3G3 | 4 | 3 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| E | 43 | E | Lived / in the / west coun- / tree / | G3G3 | 2 | 3 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| E | 43 | G | There / was a / girl in / Westmin- / ster | irreg. | 1 | 4 | x 9/8 | ternary | |||
| E | 44 | A | A sailing / down all on the / coasts of / high Barba- / ry | 4444 | 4 | 4 | x 6/8 | ternary | |||
| E | 44 | B | A coming / down along the / coasts of / Barba- / ree | 4444 | 4 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| E | 45 | A | O / I had a / ship in some / foreign coun- / try | 4444 | 1 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| E | 45 | A | And / she was called / after the / Golden Vani- / ty | 4444 | 2 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| E | 45 | A | I / fear she will be / taken by some / proud young ene- / my | 4444 | 3 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| E | 45 | B | My / father had a / ship in the / North Coun- / try | 4444 | 1 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| E | 45 | B | It's /called by the / name of the / Golden Vani- / ty | 4444 | 2 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| E | 52 | A | He / lived by his / trade of a / ship's carpen- / ter | 4444 | 4 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| E | 52 | E | In / Warwick in / Warwick in / Warwick- / shire | 4444 | 1 | 4 | x 3/4 | ternary | |||
| E | 52 | E | And / he for his / trade was a / ship's carpen- / ter | 4444 | 2 | 4 | x 3/4 | ternary | |||
| E | 60 | G | It's / Hilson, / Gibson / and John- / son | G343 | 3 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | inversion in F | ||
| E | 64 | For 'tis / one of the /crudel/lest murde- / rers | 6464 | 3 | 6 | x 3/4 | ternary | odd placement | |||
| E | 66 | A | And / on a / game / ... Keep /er we / find | 5555 | 3 | 5 | x 3/2 | ternary | x | strict pause | |
| E | 72 | As / I walked / out one / May mor- /ning | 43G3 | 1 | 4 | x 4/4 | binary | x | inversion in F | ||
| E | 74 | A | and the / favour was / granted to / charming Bet- /sy | 4444 | 4 | 4 | x 3/4 | ternary | |||
| E | 74 | C | You may / go and be / welcome, my / pretty Bet- / sy | 4444 | 4 | 4 | x 3/4 | ternary | |||
| E | 79 | And I / used her / gentil- / ly / | F3F3 | 4 | 3 | x 6/8 | ternary | ||||
| E | 88 | A | You must / leave the / coun- te- / ree / | 4343 | 4 | 3 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| E | 88 | A | Or / shun his / compa- / ny / | 4343 | 4 | 3 | x 4/4 | binary | |||
| E | 94 | C | As / I walked / out one / May mor- / ning | 4343 | 1 | 4 | x 5/4 | quinquenary | x | ||
| E | 94 | C | As / I walked / forth one / May mor- / ning | 4343 | 1 | 4 | x 5/4 | quinquenary | x | ||
| E | 94 | C | One / May mor- / ning be- / time / | 4343 | 2 | 3 | x 5/4 | quinquenary | x | x | |
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | setting confirmed by Sharp 1916, #88 | |||
| Summary Statistics | |||||||||||
| Subsample | Non-final inversions | Total inversions | Fraction of inversions final | Fraction of inversions non-final | |||||||
| all lines | 22 | 147 | 0.850 | 0.150 | |||||||
| binary grid (=(2) in paper) | 6 | 64 | 0.906 | 0.094 | |||||||
| "May morning" only | 5 | 18 | 0.722 | 0.278 | |||||||
| all but "May morning" | 17 | 129 | 0.868 | 0.132 | |||||||
| binary grid, omitting "May morning" | 3 | 48 | 0.938 | 0.063 | |||||||
| 3/2 time | 7 | 17 | 0.588 | 0.412 | |||||||
| 3/4 time | 4 | 26 | 0.846 | 0.154 | |||||||
| 6/8 and 6/4 time | 2 | 33 | 0.939 | 0.061 | |||||||
| 3/4, 6/8, 6/4 time together | 6 | 59 | 0.898 | 0.102 |