A Quantitative Research of the Modern Chinese Poetry: the Discovery of the Underlying Rhythm in GU Cheng's Poems 顧城詩
Résumé
The present work explores GU Cheng's creative syntax by enumeration of combinatorial structures of sinograms, phonetics, consonants, vowels, and tones. On the basis of colocation frequency, we extract underlying musical and rhythmic patterns from every lines. This allows to categorize the musicality and the rhythmic feeling in reading GU Cheng's poems.