Distant Reader - subject-hymns-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.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 28 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 729,887 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 26,067 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 99. 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:

lord, god, shall, verse, will, us, let, doth, praise, may, christ, hymn, one, like, love, great, sing, now, day, ye, see, make, holy, earth, come, men, good, heart, grace, name, yet, glory, therefore, man, art, part, life, made, soul, things, sin, must, psal, saints, high, whose, word, hand, ever, thine

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Six centuries of select hymns and spiritual songs collected out of the Holy Bible together with a catechism, the canticles, and a catalogue of vertuous women / by William Barton., Spiritual melody, containing near three hundred sacred hymns. By Benjamin Keach, author of Trhopolgia, pastor of the Church of Christ meeting on Horsly-down, Southwark, and The banquetting-house, or, A feast of fat things a divine poem, opening many sacred Scripture mysteries ... / written by Benjamin Keach, author of War with the Devil..

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

let us, second part, jesus christ, right hand, ye saints, early english, english books, holy ghost, one accord, holy one, praise ye, books online, every one, god doth, sing praise, will sing, third part, verse let, shall never, wicked men, god will, make us, oh lord, page images, holy name, god shall, shall come, lord shall, text creation, creation partnership, shall see, mine eyes, great god, let vs, holy spirit, set forth, will make, thine eyes, sing praises, lord doth, may see, lord jesus, bring forth, great name, mighty god, sing forth, draw near, glorious name, give laud, ye shall

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The hymnes and songs of the Church diuided into two parts. The first part comprehends the canonicall hymnes, and such parcels of Holy Scripture as may properly be sung, with some other ancient songs and creeds. The second part consists of spirituall songs, appropriated to the seuerall times and occasions obserueable in the Church of England. Translated and composed, by G.W. A psalme of thanks-giving, to be sung by the children of Christs Hospitall, on Munday in the Easter Holy dayes, at Christ Church, for their founders and benefactors. An. Dom. 1643., and Three hymnes, or certain excellent new Psalmes, composed by those three reverend, and learned divines. Mr. John Goodwin, Mr. Dasoser [sic] Powel, and Mr. Appletree. Sung in their respective congregations, at Stephens Coleman-streete, London, and at Mary Abchurch, on Thursday the 8. of October, 1650. being a day set a part for the total routing of the Scots army in Musleborough-field, by his Excellency the L. Gen. Cromwel. Licensed according to order, and published for the general use and benefit of all the saints of Jesus Christ, in England, Scotland, and Ireland..

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:

lord, god, tcp, christ, thy, king, thou, hymn, love, earth, spirit, soul, saints, man, holy, grace, father, church, thee, song, son, saviour, praise, law, israel, sion, salvation, roman, psal, nations, life, heart, glory, day, world, word, tune, thine, souls, soule, sinners, sing, second, psalms, psalm, prayer, people, loue, like, lamentation

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 thy, and Spiritual melody, containing near three hundred sacred hymns. By Benjamin Keach, author of Trhopolgia, pastor of the Church of Christ meeting on Horsly-down, Southwark 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:

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:

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?":

verse, praise, thy, day, doth, heart, men, things, art, glory, name, sin, t, people, life, psal, love, thee, man, hand, saints, way, death, grace, soul, earth, blood, mercy, none, light, time, eyes, place, hath, peace, souls, power, word, strength, face, works, part, hearts, thing, thine, wrath, joy, work, didst, world

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, be, are, do, have, let, was, did, sing, see, make, were, come, made, ''s, give, know, take, had, makes, say, praise, dost, does, thou, bring, set, been, am, live, go, keep, blessed, done, find, doth, hear, hath, brought, love, die, being, found, fall, said, save, put, stand, appear, fear

Proper Nouns

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

god, lord, thou, thy, christ, hymn, 〉, ◊, thee, 〈, ye, c., earth, holy, verse, part, king, hath, song, heaven, israel, church, grace, father, love, spirit, jesus, hast, word, son, man, angels, mat, soul, thine, psalm, gods, saviour, tcp, hell, cor, saints, name, ●, t, rev., men, sun, yea, law

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, my, i, he, thy, our, we, they, it, their, me, them, him, us, you, your, thee, her, she, its, himself, ye, themselves, ''s, mine, ours, one, theirs, ''em, yours, vvith, vp, ay, s, o, us''d, ts, hid''st, dy''d, hers, vnto, ourselves, gods, yee, urg''d, u, thou, ly, herself, gav''st

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?"

great, such, good, high, own, glorious, sweet, holy, true, more, many, other, full, wicked, doth, same, poor, free, right, first, last, old, sure, precious, much, strong, pure, happy, mighty, most, new, dead, second, sacred, dear, eternal, righteous, little, perfect, whole, blessed, bright, small, divine, best, wise, early, blest, rich, clear

not, so, then, now, most, therefore, up, ever, never, also, still, forth, more, here, thus, out, too, there, away, yet, down, well, all, alone, above, as, just, in, first, again, very, long, far, once, much, even, soon, only, always, together, n''t, no, quite, likewise, indeed, off, on, else, continually, quickly

Next steps

There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.

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