poetry-analysis 0.3.15

Tool to parse and annotate Norwegian poetry.

poetry_analysis

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

poetry_analysis has been developed alongside NORN Poems, a corpus of Norwegian poetry from the 1890's, which is freely available to use with this tool.

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

Contact

This tool was developed as a collaboration project between a literary scholar and a computational linguist in the NORN project:

• Ranveig Kvinnsland
• Ingerid Dale

If you discover any bugs, have any questions, or suggestions for improvements, please open an issue and assign an appropriate label to it. Contributions and pull requests are also welcome! Please check out the contributing section in the repo for guidelines.