We present SPARSAR, a system for the automatic analysis of poetry(and text) style which makes use of NLP tools like tokenizers, sentence splitters, NER (Name Entity Recognition) tools, and taggers. Our system in addition to the tools listed above which aim at obtaining the same results of quantitative linguistics, adds a number of additional tools for syntactic and semantic structural analysis ...

The Trlcon program has been adapted as an aid to the analysis of syntax in poetry with the hope of identifying the dominant patterns that characterize a poet's style. The Trlcon program (described in Concordances from Com~ , S.M.Lamb and L.Gould, University of Callf0~nia, ey,1964)has three active lines which this researcher has used for text, syntactic analysis (following a phrase-str~cture gra...

A grey and cold day in January 1983 the train rolled out from Karlstad’s central station toward oslo, norway, where work waited. A rounded, brown bearded man came down the aisle followed by a slender fellow with a guitar case. Are these seats free, he asked? sure, please sit down. I continued reading my newspaper. Is there anything about me in that paper? I lowered the paper surprised by the qu...

Toward concordia: Dialogue and Poetry. – The question whether the governance autonomy of medieval early modern cities participation their citizens in communal affairs may gesture toward a form self-governance or it is yet another rule privileged has re-emerged with new answers recent scholarship. It was also one topics lecture series, Urban Governance Civic Participation Words Stone, as part wh...

Tang (618-907 AD) and Song (960-1279) dynasties are two very important periods in the development of Chinese literary. The majority forms of the poetry in Tang and Song were Shi (詩) and Ci (詞), respectively. Tang Shi and Song Ci established crucial foundations of the Chinese literature, and their influences in both literary works and daily lives of the Chinese communities last until today. Reco...

In antiquity, the relationship between “music”, “poetry”, and “language” was very different from the way they relate to each other today, for back then each of these mediums was endowed with a distinct, independent signifying code expressing a semiosis all its own. However, these separate “semiospheres” nonetheless never ceased growing towards and into one another. This is so because music and ...

edited by José Ferreirós and Jeremy Gray Oxford University Press, 2006, 442 pp. $ 69.50 US, ISBN 0198567936 REVIEWED BY ANDREW ARANA This collection of essays explores what makes modern mathematics ‘modern’, where ‘modern mathematics’ is understood as the mathematics done in the West from roughly 1800 to 1970. This is not the trivial matter of exploring what makes recent mathematics recent. The...

One of the oldest and most pleasant and efficient kinds of poetry, which have attracted the attention of scholars and lovers of poetry since the beginning of the Persian poetry until now, is elegy. Khaghani Shervani is one of the poets who wrote after this genre and composed many memorable and beautiful elegies. The poet, who like many other people experienced happy and sad events and occasions...