English Poetic Phonemics

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Marc R. Plamondon, principal investigator

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Vector Distance between Corpora

Explanation of this.

Words

This counts the instances of individual spellings of words (i.e., poem is one word while poems is another) as they occur in each poem. (View the 3D representation of the distances.)

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Phonemes

This counts the instances of individual phonemes as they occur in each poem. (View the 3D representation of the distances.)

Elizabethan Romantic Victorian

Stressed phonemes

This counts the instances of individual phonemes as they occur in stressed metrical positions in each poem. (View the 3D representation of the distances.)

Elizabethan Romantic Victorian

Slack phonemes

This counts the instances of individual phonemes as they occur in slack metrical positions in each poem. (View the 3D representation of the distances.)

Elizabethan Romantic Victorian

Syllable phonemes

This counts the instances of phonemes that make-up individual syllables as they occur in each poem. (View the 3D representation of the distances.)

Elizabethan Romantic Victorian

Stressed syllable phonemes

This counts the instances of phonemes that make-up individual syllables as they occur in stressed metrical positions in each poem. (View the 3D representation of the distances.)

Elizabethan Romantic Victorian

Slack syllable phonemes

This counts the instances of phonemes that make-up individual syllables as they occur in slack metrical positions in each poem. (View the 3D representation of the distances.)

Elizabethan Romantic Victorian