German Poetry Corpus Search the annotated DLK
New High German poetry, 1560s–1920s, with part-of-speech tags, syllables, meter, and annotation layers.
Annotation layers
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Hits per decade of publication, relative to the size of the corpus in that decade. Shaded decades hold fewer than 100,000 words. Their rates are too unstable to plot, but the tooltip and the table still give them. Click a decade to filter to it.
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Syllable of the line on which the match begins.
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About the data
The DLK collects the poetry of the Deutsches Textarchiv and the TextGrid Repository. Each line carries tokens with syllable boundaries, STTS part-of-speech tags, a stress pattern and a measure label. The meter is automatically annotated, so expect errors, especially on irregular lines. The animal layer matches curated name forms, restricted to nouns. Each lemma comes with the share of real animal uses in a 40-hit sample (broad: metaphors count; strict: they don't). Corpus and documentation: github.com/tnhaider/DLK.