rhyme-paper 
LaTeX and figures for the preprint 'Rhyme in Classical Latin Poetry: Stylistic or Stochastic'.
The compiled preprint is also included as a PDF.
Further information will be added if the paper is accepted for publication.
WARNING This is a preprint, which has not been peer reviewed. The final paper will almost certainly include changes, which can sometimes be quite substantial. The results listed are also subject to change. For bonus points, the repro code is all included--prove me wrong!
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UPDATE (Jan 27, 2022): Published Version
The peer reviewed version of this paper has now been published in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (OUP) and in most cases you should prefer the published version.
ABSTRACT
This study offers the first broad quantitative analysis of the use of rhyme in classical Latin hexameter and elegiac verse. The data and tools developed for the analysis are released under a permissive open source license. These include: software to create an accurate phonetic transcription of Latin verse from the MQDQ corpus; a system for scoring rhyme via phonetic similarity; and a system for generating large amounts of metrically correct, stochastic Latin verse (useful for analysis baselines). Further to this, some initial analysis is performed: first via descriptive statistics and then with two unsupervised multivariate analyses using dimension reduction methods. The study examines 19 works by 12 authors, comprising about 96 thousand lines. First and foremost, the results show that rhyme was consciously used by classical authors, but to different extents and in different ways. There is a solid and detectable stylistic separation between the use of rhyme in elegy and epic, and possibly also between satire and the rest. Within genres, authors can be stylistically separated with a small set of features. On the negative side, it appears that the stylistic signal from rhyme is fairly faint, and so forensic analysis (e.g. for authorship attribution) is not presently recommended on texts that are shorter than several thousand lines.
Citation
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@article{nagy_rhyme_2021,
author = "Nagy, Ben",
title = "{R}hyme in classical {L}atin poetry: {S}tylistic or {S}tochastic?",
year = "2021",
publisher = {Digital Scholarship in the Humanities},
doi = {\url{https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab105}}
}
LICENSE
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