Distant Reader - subject-christianPoetry-freebo

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-24 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader zip2carrel process, and the input was a Zip file locally cached with the name input-file.zip. Documents in the Zip file have been saved in a cache, and each of them have been transformed & saved as a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 11 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 126,126 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 11,466 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 96. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

shall, god, will, vvith, may, doth, yet, make, love, one, iesvs, though, must, made, us, vvho, great, let, man, now, vvhich, good, see, grace, much, gods, sin, vvhen, church, men, know, doe, haue, text, many, first, like, done, take, holy, death, law, life, vvhat, none, day, might, heart, name, every

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Poems in two parts first, an interlocutory discourse concerning the creation, fall, and recovery of man : secondly, a dialogue between faith and a doubting soul / by Samuel Slater., Iesus præfigured, or, A poëme of the holy name of Iesus in five bookes. The first, and second booke, and Devout rhapsodies: in vvhich, is treated, of the excellencie of divine Scriptures. Also, of God, his attributes. Plurality of persons. Absolute monarchie. Angels, Good, Bad, their power. How the bad fell. Tempt man. Man, his fall. Beatitude. / By J: A: Rivers..

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

english books, early english, books online, page images, creation partnership, text creation, let us, great iesvs, holy ghost, god will, iesvs name, haue bene, iesvs church, shall see, characters represented, image sets, tcp schema, represented either, vvee see, every one, encoded edition, bit group, commercial purposes, christian poetry, markup reviewed, hovv many, pfs batch, batch review, providing financial, financial support, iv tiff, institutions providing, creative commons, images scanned, without asking, work described, xml conversion, vvhen vvee, asking permission, encoded text, image set, text transcribed, tiff page, online text, tcp assigned, proquest page, will never, textual changes, wee le, holy name

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A few words to all people concerning the present and succeeding times. Divine poems by Edward Waller Esq., and A paraphrase on the ten commandments in divine poems illustrated with twelve copper plates, shewing how personal punishments has been inflicted on the transgressors of these commandment, as is recorded in the Holy Scripture, never before printed : also, a metrical paraphrase upon the creed and Lord''s Prayer / written by George Wither ....

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

tcp, god, son, love, lord, gods, world, thy, thee, shall, man, law, good, church, wing, vvith, vvho, vvhich, virgins, truth, tree, thou, syon, sun, soul, sin, saints, rivers, psal, providence, prince, priests, precept, peters, ocean, mat, laws, know, kings, king, iesvs, hovv, house, hell, hee, heaven, haue, grace, generall, father

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be thy, and A paraphrase on the ten commandments in divine poems illustrated with twelve copper plates, shewing how personal punishments has been inflicted on the transgressors of these commandment, as is recorded in the Holy Scripture, never before printed : also, a metrical paraphrase upon the creed and Lord''s Prayer / written by George Wither ... is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

love, doth, thy, man, men, sin, grace, none, death, day, life, vvith, heart, things, t, text, hand, place, name, time, self, hath, thee, others, nothing, faith, vvho, art, vvhich, way, world, power, part, head, thine, end, blood, sins, rest, glory, fire, vvorld, soul, work, vvill, light, thing, eyes, praise, kings

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

is, be, are, have, did, do, make, was, had, made, let, were, see, know, ''s, done, take, been, vvith, come, give, makes, stand, being, keep, set, say, bring, thou, find, dost, am, go, fall, tell, found, die, brought, lost, love, taught, hath, cast, doth, doe, has, encoded, live, put, sit

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

god, thou, iesvs, vvhen, church, gods, hath, law, christ, vvho, lord, doe, vvith, tcp, heaven, haue, angels, vvee, le, hell, vvhich, mat, son, love, thy, father, adam, king, yea, thee, english, 〉, doth, ●, man, t, sun, shall, holy, goe, 〈, ◊, text, hee, grace, earth, hast, act, eve, mans

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

his, i, he, they, their, my, it, our, we, thy, me, him, them, you, thee, her, us, your, she, its, himself, themselves, mine, ''em, vvith, theirs, ''s, ours, one, vvhat, vp, ay, l, thou, th, hers, yours, ye, urg''d, thyself, themself, pelf, pe, lye, judg''d, honourd, dy''d, cur''de

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

such, great, good, more, many, same, own, other, true, much, holy, first, doth, glorious, full, best, high, vvith, free, last, early, false, due, sacred, most, english, least, common, little, wise, sad, rich, ill, christian, poor, new, blest, happy, vain, right, dead, sure, better, alone, present, old, haue, fit, precious, greater

not, so, then, now, more, too, yet, still, never, most, here, therefore, up, thus, there, out, as, only, well, much, first, ever, once, in, away, all, even, also, alone, far, vvhere, long, again, no, else, above, forth, very, together, just, rather, onely, on, down, often, oft, always, nt, indeed, before

Next steps

There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.

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