The five documents with which I experimented above using Voyant Tools are Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Assignation," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains." It was useful to look at the "Distinctive words" section and notice that some stories could be identified out of the five using just this limited list (for example, two distinctive words in "The Tell-Tale Heart" are "old" and "louder"). I was also slightly surprised by some of the most frequently used words (Cirrus), such as "length," as well as "no"/"not" but not "yes," and "he"/"his" but not much of "she"/"her."
When playing with TAPoR, I used List Words (HTML) to compare the ratio of unique words to total words in the first chapter of D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love (1680 unique words, 6309 total; 1057 occurred once and 262 occurred twice) to that in the first chapter of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations (633 unique, 1871 total; 394 once, 98 twice).
I used Poem Viewer with the first stanza of Philip Larkin's "Aubade," but I do not think that I uploaded the poem correctly... I was most interested in the way that "word sentiment" is marked in the visualization (in the horizontal layout).
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