poetry-analysis

Rule-based tool to extract repetition patterns and other lyric features from poetry, or other text data where the newline is a meaningful segment boundary.

Lyric features that can be extracted with this tool includes

• end rhyme schemes
• alliteration
• anaphora
• lyrical subject

This tool was developed for the NORN project.

It was developed alongside NORN Poems, a corpus of Norwegian poetry from the 1890's, which is freely available as TEI .xml and plain .txt files.

• Github repository: https://github.com/norn-uio/poetry-analysis/
• Documentation https://norn-uio.github.io/poetry-analysis/

Installation

This library requires python >= 3.11. Create and activate a virtual environment before installing, e.g. with uv:

# Create environment with uv
uv venv --python 3.11

# Activate environment
source .venv/bin/activate

# Install poetry_analysis
pip install poetry-analysis