Last but not least, the melodic contour of both pieces is very similar as well. Both songs display a mixture of arcs, undulations and simple ascending and descending patterns. In “Some Enchanted Evening”, the undulations generally start from a higher pitch first note followed by a lower pitch second note for the choruses and vice versa for the verses. The last phrase of the piece has a climactic point which concludes the piece dramatically. In “The Fragrant Death”, the contour is all undulations, the opening of phrases always begin with a pitch lower than the second note. Since this piece can be described as somewhat amorphous in terms of phrasal structure, the undulation patterns take a larger variety of lengths.

Table #2: Melody Contour of both pieces in sections

Melody Contour
Some Enchanted Evening ( 4 sections)	The Fragrant Death ( 3 sections)
Section 1 (chorus 1): bars 1 -16	Section 1 (bars 1-13)
Section 2 (verse 1) : bars 17-22	Section 2 (bars 13-31)
Section 3 (chorus 2): bars 23 -38	Section 3 (bars 32-44)
Second last phrase (bars 39-40) Last phrase (bars 41-45) Section 4 (coda): bars 39-45	n/a

The contours of both pieces display numerous undulations. In “Some Enchanted Evening”, the contour undulates in similar fashion in both the first and third sections (choruses of the piece) whereas the second and fourth sections (verses) share a descending pattern; the last phrase is in an ascending pattern because a climax is included here. In “The Fragrant Death”, the contours are generally undulations as well. All the phrases have an undulation contour but the first and last sections consist of an undulation that ascends. The second section resembles the second section of “Some Enchanted Evening” because of the overall descent but “The Fragrant Death” has an undulating contour and “Some Enchanted Evening” demonstrates a plain descending contour instead. By identifying these contours, another strong link is discovered because the overall patterns of both pieces are very similar, since both first sections starts with a first note that is lower pitch than the second note and coincidently the same descending order in the second section.