VERSIFICATION OF LANGUAGE UNITS FROM THE LENS OF MORPHOLOGICAL STATISTICS (MODERN BRITISH AND GERMAN POETRY)

Abstract

The article presents a statistical linguistic analysis of the morphological structure represented in British poetry. The part-of-speech belonging of words as a subject of stylometry is analyzed. The use of statistical text analysis to determine the set of keywords in British poetry helps to quantify the parameters of its linguistic style, and this complements the qualitative analysis of linguistic phenomena. The statistics of the researched language of British and German poetry includes the analysis of various linguistic aspects that are characteristic of poetic speech in the contemporary literature of Great Britain. The article focuses on the scientific interest in the morphological statistics of the language of British poetry for the analysis of the structural features of the poetic text. Nouns in poetry are used to name objects, ideas, abstract concepts, as well as to create images and symbols. They can play a significant role in creating images and concepts in a poetic text. Verbs define actions, events, and the state of objects in poetry; other grammatical classes of words help create rhythm, pace, movement, and expressiveness in a poetic text. Service words are used to build syntactic structures and provide coherence between words and sentences in poetry. Determining the number of linguistic units of a certain grammatical class in poetry serves as a reliable tool for studying the reflection of the most essential features and statistical parameters of poetic discourse. The material presented in the article for the study and further analysis of their morphological potential was selected from contemporary original texts written by British poets contained in literary anthologies, libraries and web resources specializing in poetry. The examples for linguistic morphological analysis are the works of Carol Ann Duffy, Seamus Justin Heaney, Simon Armitage, T. C. Eliot Doris Kareckendey, Ulrike Almut Sandig, Jan Wagner, Durs Grünbein and Kai Wieland. It has been observed that there are no strict rules as to which parts of speech should prevail in poetry in general, and this always remains in the sphere of the author's creativity. The analyzed aspects of morphological analysis can be applied to the poetry of different historical periods and literary trends in British and German poetry in order to study their features and the evolution of linguistic expression, which determines the prospects for further research in this area.