sixtynineseventy
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Hi,
Can anyone tell me if there is any literature criticism on word frequency number patterns in poetry, or even what is otherwise prose?
Example of what I am talking about:
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/poe/edgar_allan/p74p/poem66.html
In Edgar Allen Poe's Bells poem, the word"time" occurs 12 times, which makes sense because there are twelve numbers on a clock. The poem has a duple meter (often labeled as 4/4 time on sheet music), and the word "rhyme" occurs 4 times. The word "bells" occurs in increasing numbers in each of the four parts:
10-first
13 second
15 third
24 fourth
This is not terribly significant except that in the last stanza, the fact that the word "bells" occurs 24 times matches the thing about bells "Keeping time, time, time."
I am interested in:
A. Is anyone anywhere keeping track of word frequency patterns?
B. Is all poetry already analyzed for this sort of thing already and I am just ignorant?
C. Is this basically new? Did I just discover something for the first time?
Can anyone tell me if there is any literature criticism on word frequency number patterns in poetry, or even what is otherwise prose?
Example of what I am talking about:
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/poe/edgar_allan/p74p/poem66.html
In Edgar Allen Poe's Bells poem, the word"time" occurs 12 times, which makes sense because there are twelve numbers on a clock. The poem has a duple meter (often labeled as 4/4 time on sheet music), and the word "rhyme" occurs 4 times. The word "bells" occurs in increasing numbers in each of the four parts:
10-first
13 second
15 third
24 fourth
This is not terribly significant except that in the last stanza, the fact that the word "bells" occurs 24 times matches the thing about bells "Keeping time, time, time."
I am interested in:
A. Is anyone anywhere keeping track of word frequency patterns?
B. Is all poetry already analyzed for this sort of thing already and I am just ignorant?
C. Is this basically new? Did I just discover something for the first time?