A Multivariate Study of Style Differences in Poetry

Andreev, Vadim

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“…Longfellow, and E.A. Poe (Andreev, 2008a). Words in the initial and final predominantly stressed positions (in the example below marked in bold type) also called ictuses, proved to be of primary importance for style analysis as was shown in a number of verse text classifications (Andreev, 2008a(Andreev, , 2008b and were characterized using the above-mentioned 19 morphological and syntactic features.…”

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“…Poe (Andreev, 2008a). Words in the initial and final predominantly stressed positions (in the example below marked in bold type) also called ictuses, proved to be of primary importance for style analysis as was shown in a number of verse text classifications (Andreev, 2008a(Andreev, , 2008b and were characterized using the above-mentioned 19 morphological and syntactic features. Morphological characteristics reflect the frequency of morphological classes of words (noun, verb, adjective, adverb, and pronoun) in these positions and a number of syntactic characteristics, based on the traditional notions of the members of the sentence (subject, predicate, object, adverbial modifier), reflect their syntactic functions.…”

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Patterns in Style Evolution of Poets

Andreev

2019

Sage Open

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This article investigates the problem of style stability and variation over time and presents the results of analysis of style evolution of American romantic poet H.W. Longfellow. The feature set includes 29 morphological and syntactic characteristics. The method of multivariate discriminant analysis is used. The study showed significant style changes over time and made it possible to single out the major tendencies of style evolution: the poet in his mature verses returns to the characteristics of his early lyrics. Besides, comparison of the variable and stable characteristics demonstrated that the initial part of the line is connected with style evolution, whereas the end of the line (which is the rhymed position) is less variable over time. The results may be useful for authorship attribution and manuscript dating research.

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confidence: 97%