Token-Pooled or Equal-Work? Two Ways to Describe a Poetry Corpus
When we analyze a single poem, the basic unit is fairly easy to picture. VerseVAD identifies the words that are … Read more
Methods & Measures
Why VerseVAD Shows Its Work
Computational analysis can create an impression of certainty very quickly. A score appears, a category is assigned, and the result … Read more
Why Traditional Readability Scores Struggle with Poetry
Readability scores are meant to answer a straightforward question: how difficult is a piece of writing to read? For ordinary … Read more
What VerseVAD Can—and Cannot—Tell Us
Any attempt to analyze poetry with numbers is going to make some readers uneasy. That reaction is understandable. Poetry is … Read more
What are Valence, Arousal, and Dominance?
When we describe the emotional atmosphere of a poem, we usually reach for words such as joyful, somber, anxious, tender, … Read more