An initial study of topical poetry segmentation

Similarity Despite the low agreement, subsets (i.e., clusters) of coders may may agree more than others. Using 1−B (Fournier, 2013) as a distance function, hierarchical agglomerative clustering produces Figure 3, with the agreement for reach cluster shown in Figure 4. Line R E(J) E(b) 1 In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A 2 A stately pleasure-dome decree: B 3 Where Alph, the sacred river, ran C 4 Through caverns measureless to man C 5 Down to a sunless sea. B 6 So twice five miles of fertile ground D 7 With walls and towers were girdled round; D 8 And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills E 9 Where blossom’d many an incense-bearing tree; B 10 And here were forests ancient as the hills, E 11 Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. B 12 But oh that deep romantic chasm which slanted F 13 Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! G 14 A savage place! as holy and inchanted F 15 As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted F 16 By woman wailing for her demon-lover! G 17 And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, H 18 As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, H 19 A mighty fountain momently was forced: I 20 Amid whose swift half-intermitted Burst I 21 Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, J 22 Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail: J 23 And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever K 24 It flung up momently the sacred river. K 25 Five miles meandering with a mazy motion L 26 Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, C 27 Then reached the caverns measureless to man, C 28 And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: L 29 And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far M 30 Ancestral voices prophesying war! M 31 The shadow of the dome of pleasure N 32 Floated midway on the waves; O 33 Where was heard the mingled measure N 34 From the fountain and the caves. O 35 It was a miracle of rare device, P 36 A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice! P 37 A damsel with a dulcimer Q 38 In a vision once I saw: R 39 It was an Abyssinian maid S 40 And on her dulcimer she play’d, S 41 Singing of Mount Abora. R 42 Could I revive within me B 43 Her symphony and song, T 44 To such a deep delight ’twould win me, B 45 That with music loud and long, T 46 I would build that dome in air, U 47 That sunny dome! those caves of ice! P 48 And all who heard should see them there, U 49 And all should cry, Beware! Beware! U 50 His flashing eyes, his floating hair! U 51 Weave a circle round him thrice, P 52 And close your eyes with holy dread: V 53 For he on honey-dew hath fed, V 54 And drunk the milk of Paradise. P Figure 1: Kubla Khan (Coleridge, 1816, pp. 55-58); showing rhyming scheme (R) and heatmaps showing mean label Jaccard-similarity (E(J)) and boundary frequency (E(b)) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Coder 0 5 10 15 20 25 30