Verses and Sentences

Analyses at the level of the line, strophe, and sentence — the architecture of lyrics, the syntactic make-up of their sentences, and how far their language follows quantitative laws.

Most Frequent Sentence Beginnings

Ranked frequency tables of sentence-initial word forms for the full corpus and all individual archive views.

Strophes in Songs

Distribution of strophe counts per song (1–20) across the full corpus and all individual archives.

Lines in Strophes

Distribution of verse-line counts per strophe (1–20) — quatrain dominance, even-number preference, and the HipHop 16-bar signature.

Menzerath–Altmann Law

Average constituent length as a function of constituent count per sentence — empirical verification of a universal quantitative law across all artist archives.

Clause Structure

Subordination rates and clause types (object, adverbial, relative) across all artist archives — from full syntactic parse annotation.

Coordination and Subordination

Parataxis or hypotaxis? Comparing rates of coordinated and subordinated clauses, and the four-way sentence complexity profile: simple, coordination-only, subordination-only, or both.