Abstract
The article discusses the problem of studying of the structure and content of texts of different genres. Text is the main structure of language construction at the highest level. Metaphorical expressions of the English language were mainly selected from well-known electronic sources. The main one is, of course, the British National Corps. (British National Corpus). This corpus contains samples of texts of various genres, but poetry speech samples are very rare. Literature Online (LO) was chosen as the second source. This electronic resource contains more than 2000 poems by 797 authors. A total of 554 metaphorical expressions on the subject of Sadness were selected from the "British National Corpus", while 518 expressions were found in Literature Online.
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