"All My Loving"

Yester-day, I ran across my note about the similarity between "All My Loving" and Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day," which I wrote about last month.  Just seeing the title of the Beatles' song made me realize that most instances of the phrase "all my lovin'" are sung to notes of all different pitches, providing a sense of this breadth or entirety.  In the last line of each verse ("And I'll send all my lovin' to you"), it's sung to the notes C# B A G#, and in the lines "All my lovin' I will send to you / All my lovin', darling, I'll be true," it's sung to the notes E D# C# G# (both times).

"Honey Pie"

I was thinking about "Honey Pie" a couple days ago and had a number of small realizations about the line "I'm in love, but I'm lazy."  The first half ("I'm in love") ascends (A B E) as if illustrating this excitement, but the second half ("but I'm lazy") generally descends (B A G E G; "lazy" is sung with a melisma), matching this lack of effort.  That the two halves go in opposite musical directions heightens this sense of contrast.

There's a sort of poetic balance between the two halves (since "love" and "lazy" start with the same letter), and to some degree, this superficial resemblance draws attention to the contrast, too.

In finding the specific pitches for the above, I also discovered that "home" in the following line ("So won't you please come home") is sung to a G, which is the tonic note (the song is in G major), so there's a musical sense of "com[ing] home," especially since it coincides with the tonic chord.