Computational Stylistics in Poetry, Prose, and Drama pp 117–132
Rhyme Frequency in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry
Natalie M. Houston
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10.1515/9783110781502-007Abstract
To account for the effects of rhyme, analysis of word frequencies in poetry should distinguish line-end words from words found elsewhere in the text. This research explores three methods of analyzing rhyme word frequencies that can contribute to the understanding of the conventions that shaped nineteenth-century English verse. Rhyme frequency ranking, effect size metrics, and the rhyme frequency ratio offer distinct views of a large poetry corpus and glimpses into how historical readers might have experienced rhyme’s structuring force within poetic discourse.About
Houston, N. M. (2023). Rhyme Frequency in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry. In A. S. Bories, P. Plecháč, & P. Ruiz Fabo (Eds.), Computational Stylistics in Poetry, Prose, and Drama: (pp. 117–132). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110781502-007DOI
http://doi.org/10.1515/9783110781502-007
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978-3110-781-41-0
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978-3110-781-50-2
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