The sound effects include literal-minded bird songs as the badminton birdies fly and mocking Ronettes-style love ditties as Phèdre ponders her fate.

A memory of the days when Izaak was an amorist, and shone in love ditties, appears thus.

It is to be regretted that we have not an opportunity of judging for ourselves of his "love ditties and his tales of prose " Versi d'amore e prose di romanzi.

I went up to him as he was singing a love ditty and looking tenderly at a lady, and interrupted him exactly in the middle of the second couplet.

Guess I'd better go get a tape on love ditties.

The moment I struck up a love ditty on this cracked old fiddle she burst into tears.

Trent Fitzgerald wrote a positive review for "Pop Crush", stating that " is the two-time Grammy-winner's metaphoric love ditty that features playful electric guitars and feel-good lyrics."

He in love ditties and the tales of prose Without a rival stands, and lets the fools Talk on, who think the songster of Limoges O'ertops him.

She is very fond of love ditties, and all lovers would do well to invoke her.

But the songs' ability to move beyond the subject-object straitjacket of a love ditty into more generalized and powerful content draws wide audiences and mocks critics' dismissals of their banality.