subject-elegiacPoetry-freebo

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-24 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader zip2carrel process, and the input was a Zip file locally cached with the name input-file.zip. Documents in the Zip file have been saved in a cache, and each of them have been transformed & saved as a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

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Size

There are 69 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 169,262 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 2,453 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 88. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

text, tcp, english, death, now, early, eebo, yet, books, great, will, may, like, one, shall, good, tei, non, encoded, texts, online, much, made, must, make, xml, phase, image, love, first, god, roman, characters, images, life, partnership, works, page, whose, transcribed, markup, lord, us, work, man, see, still, let, never, oxford

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are An elogie with an accrostick and an epitaph on the death of that laborious servant and minister of Christ, Mr James Janeway; who departed this life and put on imortality; the 16th. day of March 1673/4., To the memorie of the much honoured, and much lamented Thomas Robertson bailie and builder of Edinburgh; who departed this life; September 22. 1686. A funeral elegie. / N: Paterson., and On the death of the illustrious David Earle of Wemyss, &c. One of the most honourable lords of his Majesties Privy Council. Elegie..

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

english books, early english, books online, roman non, text creation, creation partnership, page images, tcp schema, represented either, image sets, characters represented, proquest page, tiff page, creative commons, pfs batch, without asking, institutions providing, bit group, xml conversion, providing financial, encoded edition, batch review, tcp assigned, images scanned, online text, work described, elegiac poetry, asking permission, iv tiff, encoded text, markup reviewed, financial support, text transcribed, commercial purposes, image set, textual changes, early works, page image, mona logarbo, gap elements, right honourable, will never, defects per, th century, lord hastings, two phases, language title, tcp data, libraries guidelines, text strings

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are An elogie with an accrostick and an epitaph on the death of that laborious servant and minister of Christ, Mr James Janeway; who departed this life and put on imortality; the 16th. day of March 1673/4. An elegie on the death of Mr. William Dunlop principal of the University of Glasgow, and To the memory of the right Honourable Margaret Countess of Weems. Who departed this life at Weems, February 20 1688. A funeral elegie. / N. Paterson..

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

tcp, english, early, thomason, text, death, essex, lord, thy, thomas, roman, non, god, world, soul, sir, love, fate, church, william, wife, vertue, tonge, thou, thee, tei, tear, swains, sun, sonds, son, slater, seas, saint, royall, prince, polyander, pollio, place, pindar, orrery, oldsworth, noble, nathaniel, muse, mervyn, mercer, master, man, luke

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be text, and Characters and elegies. By Francis VVortley, Knight and Baronet. is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

1. text - Elegies offer''d up to the memory of William Glover, Esquire ... by Thomas Philipot ...
2. thy - Svffolks tears, or, Elegies on the renowned knight Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston a gentleman eminent for piety to God, love to the Church, and fidelity to his country, and therefore highly honored by them all : he was five times chosen Knight of the Shire, for the county of Suffolk, and once burgess of Sudbury, in the discharge of which trust, he always approved himself faithful, as by his great sufferings for the freedoms and liberties of his countrey, abundantly appear : a zealous promoter of the preaching of the Gospel, manifested by his great care, in presenting men, able, learned, and pious, to the places whereof he had the patronage, and also by his large and extraordinary bounty towards the advancing of religion and learning, both at home, and in forreign plantations among the heathen.
3. good - Characters and elegies. By Francis VVortley, Knight and Baronet.

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

1. text, tcp, english - An elegy on the death of that most laborious and painful minister of the gospel, Mr. John Norcot who fell asleep in the Lord the 24th day of this instant March, 1675/6.
2. thy, non, did - Svffolks tears, or, Elegies on the renowned knight Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston a gentleman eminent for piety to God, love to the Church, and fidelity to his country, and therefore highly honored by them all : he was five times chosen Knight of the Shire, for the county of Suffolk, and once burgess of Sudbury, in the discharge of which trust, he always approved himself faithful, as by his great sufferings for the freedoms and liberties of his countrey, abundantly appear : a zealous promoter of the preaching of the Gospel, manifested by his great care, in presenting men, able, learned, and pious, to the places whereof he had the patronage, and also by his large and extraordinary bounty towards the advancing of religion and learning, both at home, and in forreign plantations among the heathen.
3. text, thy, shall - Elegies offer''d up to the memory of William Glover, Esquire ... by Thomas Philipot ...
4. tho, like, shou - Two books of elegies in imitation of the first books of Ovid de Tristibus, with part of the third to which is added verses upon several occasions with some translations out of the Latin and Greek poets / by Thomas Ball.
5. non, roman, thy - Characters and elegies. By Francis VVortley, Knight and Baronet.

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

text, death, texts, books, t, xml, image, characters, images, works, page, work, life, keying, edition, eebo, time, eyes, poetry, elements, day, man, men, tears, data, project, encoding, users, purposes, markup, changes, title, none, love, name, tho, mind, heart, end, soul, art, author, thy, words, instances, transcription, way, part, sets, selection

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

is, was, be, have, did, are, were, had, been, ''s, encoded, do, made, make, see, let, has, based, know, take, -, give, come, gone, tell, set, live, say, published, known, lost, create, created, according, represented, read, marked, go, corrected, left, sent, knew, performed, meet, assigned, scanned, reviewed, providing, owned, modified

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

tcp, english, text, thou, god, eebo, tei, lord, oxford, proquest, phase, partnership, creation, transcribed, heaven, thomason, online, london, t, wing, thy, john, books, gods, earth, sir, iv, commons, utf-8, unicode, p5, ncbel, michigan, universal, love, fate, elegiac, world, tiff, sampled, qc, library, keyed, eng, creative, batch, king, sun, hastings, hath

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

his, he, i, their, my, her, our, we, it, you, they, him, your, thy, she, me, them, us, its, thee, himself, ''s, themselves, ''em, mine, theirs, ours, yours, one, ye, hic, shou''d, vvhat, l, em, Ò, yee, wil, whin''d, whatsoe''er, vvould''st, vvith, thou''dst, thou, ta''n, submission, she''ad, room, infam''d, inclos''d

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

early, great, such, good, english, non, roman, -, more, available, true, first, much, own, other, sad, textual, dead, many, general, noble, greater, illegible, last, glorious, due, best, keyboarded, financial, commercial, happy, original, large, second, high, late, proofread, most, clear, new, full, old, honourable, pious, free, same, brave, better, 17th, light

not, so, then, now, more, here, too, still, thus, never, yet, as, most, out, online, well, therefore, there, much, above, even, up, ever, very, no, once, in, again, early, long, down, far, first, just, only, away, often, rather, onely, over, before, sometimes, hence, all, forth, usually, below, always, variously, respectfully

Next steps

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