3: Bali Hai | Edelweiss | Jingle Bells | In The Mood | J'attendrai | Rocket Man | Purple Rain | Choc'late Rain | Gagnam Style | Closing Time | You're So Vain
3: Girls Girls Girls | Hot Cross Buns | Three Blind Mice
3: The Space Pope | Free Fallin' | Chop Suey | Moon River
4: Hallelujah | Doctor Zaius | Sex And Violence | Thunch And Snupple | O Susanna | Ol' Man River | Get Up, Stand Up.
4: Five hundred miles | Abide with me | Where is my mind? | Come on, Eileen | All for me grog | Silver and gold | Eight Million Bees | All by myself | All Through The Night | Karma Police.
5: Anticipation | Eleanor Rigby | Eyyy, Macarena | Ooh, Barracuda | I'm Levitating | Guantanamera | She Drives Me Crazy
5: Autumn In New York | Blinded By The Light | Feliz Navidad | Puttin' On The Ritz | Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
5: Knights In White Satin
5: No, I Won't Back Down
5: Slip Slidin' Away
5: Take My Breath Away
5: The King Of The Road
6: And It's All For Me Grog
6: Caught In A Bad Romance | God Bless America | Hey Jude, Don't Make It Bad |
6: How I Wish You Were Here
6: Please Don't Fear The Reaper | Sitting On A Park Bench | Some Enchanted Evening | Smile Like You Mean It
6: There's Whiskey In The Jar | We're Movin' Right Along
7: Ain't No Mountain High Enough | Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain | Button Up Your Overcoat | Camptown Races, Sing This Song | Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend | Dream A Little Dream Of Me | If I Only Had A Brain | Oh My Darling Clementine | Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone | Ground Control To Major Tom | Going With Him Someday Soon | Help Me Make It Through The Night | Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down | Papa Was A Rodeo | I'm Not Sick But I'm Not Well | Twinkle Twinkle Little Star | While My Guitar Gently Weeps | Old McDonald Had A Farm | Hello Darkness My Old Friend
7: Someone To Watch Over Me | Stop Draggin' My Heart Around | It's Only A Paper Moon
7: Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer | Somewhere Over The Rainbow | I'm Leaving On A Jet Plane | A La Claire Fontaine
8: All I Want for Christmas Is You | All We Are Is Dust In The Wind | But I Only Have Eyes For You
8: I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas | Oh What A Beautiful Morning | O Lord, It's Hard To Be Humble
8: June Is Bustin' Out All Over | In The Hills Of Connemara
8: Lots Of Fun At Finnegan's Wake
8: Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast?
8: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Do You Want To Build A Snowman? | How Are Things in Glocca Morra? | Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee | Oh The Shark Has Pearly Teeth Dear
8: Well I Suppose, Anything Goes | I'm Picking Up Good Vibrations
8: The Last Of Barrett's Privateers
8: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
8: Till All The Things You Are Are Mine
9: Ba Ba Black Sheep, Have You Any Wool
9: Beautiful Dreamer, Wake Unto Me
9: Blackbird Singing In The Dead Of Night
9: Give Me Some Afro-Cuban Bebop | I'll Never Be Your Beast Of Burden
9: Hush Little Baby, Don't Say A Word
9: I Am A Poor Wayfaring Stranger
9: I Bought Me A Cat, My Cat Pleased Me
9: I Know A Heartache When I See One
9: Just My Rifle, My Pony, And Me
9: Sing Us A Song You're The Piano Man
9: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
9: When I Take You Out In The Surrey
9: Whisper Words Of Wisdom, Let It Be
10: And Make A Northwest Passage To The Sea
10: And She's Buying A Stairway To Heaven
10: Buffalo Girls Won't You Come Out Tonight | It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year | But I Can't Help Falling In Love With You | Metal Movie Marijuana Meltdown
10: Even If We're Just Dancing In The Dark
10: Gather Up The Pots And The Old Tin Cans
10: I Don't Need To Walk Around In Circles
10: I Eat My Candy With The Pork And Beans
10: I Get Along Without You Very Well
10: I Have Emotional Motion Sickness
10: Night Time On The City Of New Orleans
10: People Say I've Got A Drinkin' Problem
10: Raindrops On Roses, Whiskers On Kittens
10: Summertime And The Living Is Easy
10: The Water Is Wide, I Can Not Cross O'er.
10: There Ain't No Way To Hide Your Lyin Eyes
10: We Will All Go Together When We Go
11: All The Other Kids With The Pumped Up Kicks
11: But Don't Look Back In Anger I Heard Her Say
11: Drop Kick Me, Jesus, Through The Goal Posts Of Life
11: I Gave My Love A Cherry That Had No Stone
11: I Want To Know Have You Ever Seen The Rain
11: If We Make It Through December, We'll Be Fine
11: Now You're Just Somebody That I Used To Know
11: Scarecrow & Fungus They Ran Through A Stoplight
11: The Lord Knows I'm Drinking And Running Around
11: Wearing Out Your Chompers Eatin' Goober Peas
11: You Can Hear The Whistle Blow A Hundred Miles
12: I Been Through The Desert On A Horse With No Name
12: Plenty Of Room At The Hotel California
12: Singing Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard
12: That's Me In The Spot Light Losing My Religion
12: Yesterday All My Troubles Seemed So Far Away
13: Fly Me To The Moon And Let Me Play Amoong The Stars
13: Hey There, Delilah, What's It Like In New York City?
13: If You Don't Give Me Rye Whiskey I Surely Will Die
14: I Was Dancing With My Darling To The Tenessee Waltz
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More or less. The commonality in Set 1 is stress on the penultimate syllable and the first syllable, with the third syllable more often receiving primary stress and the first syllable having a secondary stress. "Get Up, Stand Up" is the oddball in the group, as it's iambic. In the Set 2, many are examples of choriambs, but the commonality is an iamb for the second foot.
ReplyDeleteFor developing an intuitive notion of meter, I recommend these poems which you probably glossed over in high school:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54932/sea-fever-56d235e0d871e
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45318/break-break-break
What's ignored in early poetry education is that *most people can't automatically pick up on metrical patterns*, despite stress being the basis of our verse. It takes some training, but if you do an exercise where you write 3 or so verse poems (maybe sonnet-length), looking up the stress of each word in a dictionary, it'll become second nature.