Distant Reader - subject-lovePoetry-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 13 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 114,889 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 8,837 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 94. 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:

love, shall, will, now, let, yet, may, doth, like, one, loue, fair, great, tcp, text, eyes, still, make, english, first, men, art, heart, see, time, must, beauty, well, take, king, know, haue, made, eebo, whose, sweet, say, come, never, good, much, day, page, though, hand, might, away, man, life, death

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The art of love in two books. Written both to men and ladies. A new poem., Poems, songs and love-verses, upon several subjects by Matthew Coppinger ..., and The garland of good-will divided into three parts : containing many pleasant songs and pretty poems to sundry new notes : with a table to find the names of all the songs / written by T.D..

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

english books, early english, books online, text creation, creation partnership, page images, tcp schema, image sets, characters represented, represented either, hey ho, will never, now take, image set, later edition, early works, batch review, encode one, displayable xml, facilitate morpho, web site, publisher proquest, sdata character, accurately transcribed, errors will, first editions, tcp assigned, lossless xml, text strings, texts based, notably latin, remaining illegibles, libraries guidelines, characters will, characters marked, data within, tcp phase, ascii text, asking permission, partnership web, proquest via, usual project, xml conversion, basic encoding, tcp aimed, text encoding, quality assurance, proquest page, critical editions, compelling reason

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Loves fierce desire, and hopes of recovery. Or, A true and brief description of two resolved lovers; whose excellent wits, sutable minds, and faithful hearts one to another, shall heedfully be spoken of in this following new made paper of verses. To a delightful new tune, or, Fair angel of England. Love in the blossome: or, Fancy in the bud. Containing a pretty, pleasant and delightful courtship, betwixt two very young (but truly amorous) lovers, being persons of very eminent quality, (at their first entrance into Cupid''s school.) To the tune of, Amarillis told her swain. / J.P., and The two faithful lovers, or, A merry song in praise of Betty. Young-men and maids I do intend to sing a song that''s newly pen''d; and if you please to have it out ''twill please your fancies without doubt. / By T.B. Tune of, The amorous damsel of Bristol city. With allowance..

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, love, thy, thou, thee, loue, lady, haue, hath, hand, gods, eyes, doth, beauty, youth, wench, venus, sun, soul, selfe, rules, queen, power, poet, passion, night, men, man, maid, lovers, lord, like, knight, king, heart, great, good, giue, finis, fate, fair, elegia, early, duke, dido, death, clelia, charms, charmer

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 The art of love in two books. Written both to men and ladies. A new poem. 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:

love, did, shall - Poems, songs and love-verses, upon several subjects by Matthew Coppinger ...
thy, thou, thee - Ouid''s elegies three bookes. By C.M. Epigrames by I.D.
thy, thou, loue - Ouidius Naso his Remedie of love. Translated and intituled to the youth of England
28, ended, hart - The faithful lovers of the West ... to the tune of, As I walkt forth to take the air / by William Blunten.
28, ended, hart - The faithful lovers of the West ... to the tune of, As I walkt forth to take the air / by William Blunten.

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?":

love, eyes, time, heart, doth, t, art, men, thy, text, day, page, death, place, life, ▪, mind, self, man, texts, selfe, thee, none, face, hands, words, things, characters, hand, name, gold, works, rest, night, books, way, image, xml, gods, delight, force, tho, fire, cause, hath, wife, sight, beauty, work, shame

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:

be, is, did, was, are, let, do, were, have, had, make, ''s, see, take, know, made, say, come, being, been, am, has, tell, love, go, thou, does, said, give, encoded, found, stay, find, came, seem, done, think, bear, makes, please, hear, set, lost, sent, write, stand, bring, took, saw, based

Proper Nouns

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

thou, love, tcp, 〉, loue, ◊, ●, king, english, 〈, beauty, lady, god, maid, thy, text, tei, eebo, thee, hath, youth, lover, lord, haue, venus, oxford, le, queen, t, elegia, lovers, doth, cupid, maids, charms, e''re, gods, c., fair, clelia, proquest, phase, partnership, england, creation, hand, sun, sir, poet, finis

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?"

i, my, her, his, he, she, you, me, thy, your, their, it, they, him, we, thee, our, them, us, its, mine, himself, themselves, yours, ''s, one, vp, ours, thou, indiff''rence, hers, ''em, zelf, whereof, vvhat, us''d, u, twou''d, th, st, shou''d, s, pow''rful, obey''d, ne, hence, breake

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?"

such, great, fair, more, good, sweet, other, true, many, last, new, first, early, full, soft, own, english, much, high, doth, pleasant, least, small, most, long, young, old, little, free, same, happy, vain, available, sad, ill, strong, greater, cruel, dead, bright, rich, gentle, fond, false, dear, best, faithful, poor, blest, mighty

not, so, then, now, thus, still, more, too, yet, here, never, there, away, well, most, first, ever, as, therefore, out, again, much, forth, far, once, only, oft, down, sometimes, no, very, alone, all, up, soon, on, long, hence, in, fast, often, even, above, before, perhaps, else, online, n''t, quite, just

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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