A Computational Approach to Poetic Structure, Rhythm and Rhyme

English. In this paper we present SPARSAR, a system for the automatic analysis of English and Italian poetry. The system can work on any type of poem and produces a set of parameters that are then used to compare poems with one another, of the same author or of different authors. In this paper, we will concentrate on the second module, which is a rule-based system to represent and analyze poetic devices. Evaluation of the system on the basis of a manually created dataset including poets from Shakespeare's time down to T.S.Eliot and Sylvia Plath has shown its high precision and accuracy approximating 90%. Italiano. In questo lavoro presentiamo SPARSAR, un sistema per l'analisi automatica di poesia inglese e italiana. Il sistema e in grado di lavorare su qualunque poesia e produce un insieme di parametri che vengono poi usati per confrontare poesie e autori tra di loro. In questo lavoro ci concentreremo sul secondo modulo che consiste in un sistema a regole per rappresentare e analizzare i dispositivi e le tecniche poetiche.

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