Studia Metrica et Poetica

Named Entity Recognition and Linking in PoeTree Corpora

2026-03-27T13:12:16+00:00

Named entity recognition (NER) and named entity linking (NEL) remain underexplored in poetic texts. This study provides the first large-scale evaluation of contemporary NER and NEL systems on poetry across seven European languages – Czech, German, English, French, Italian, Russian, and Slovenian – using corpora from the PoeTree project. We benchmark three NER systems (flair, NameTag 2, spaCy) and three GPT models (GPT-3.5, GPT-4, GPT-4 Turbo) against manually annotated gold standards. While results fall short of in-domain benchmarks, they significantly outperform earlier findings. Manual correction further raises final annotation quality to estimated F1 scores between 0.77 and 0.93 across languages. We additionally evaluate two NEL systems – spaCy fishing and mGenre – showing that mGenre consistently outperforms spaCy fishing, achieving in-KB F1-scores of 0.70–0.81. By analysing geographic distances between predicted and gold-standard links, we demonstrate that a substantial portion of “incorrect” predictions are near-miss ambiguities rather than substantive errors. The resulting manually verified geolocation annotations have been integrated into PoeTree and made available through an interactive map interface.

The Depth beyond the Lines: Key Linguistic Features of Three Polish Poems

2026-03-27T13:20:31+00:00

In the current study, I introduce a combination of a qualitative-quantitative approach to discover the content of three Polish poems. The lexical content was annotated on lexical, textual, affective, and stylistic dimensions and then analysed using correlation and exploratory factor analyses. The correlation analysis plausibly reflects how prosodic accentuation and attention guidance operate, with the main accent (stress) in the middle of a verse and with line-final words being often shorter, preenjambed, and accumulating near the line break. Poems induce not an emotional but rather an intellectual and introspective engagement, being charged with frequent but more abstract and less vivid lexemes. The variables included in the exploratory factor analysis were clustered into four factors: abstract-significance continuum, affective control, lexical domain, and linear organisation. Together, they form a hierarchy of dimensions where imageability, concreteness, arousal, and significance play a superior role in poetic architectonics. Finally, the quantitative analysis enabled establishing affective differences between poems, with A. Zagajewski’s poems being least dominant and structurally open, while Szymborska’s and Herbert’s poems use a dominant lexicon to frame interpretational pathways and emotionally anchor the reader.

Russian and Ukrainian “Voices” in David Guramishvili’s Prosody

2026-03-27T13:23:54+00:00

The article examines the prosody of the eminent Georgian eighteenth-century poet David Guramishvili, whose work introduced an unprecedented diversity of meters into Georgian poetry. This diversity is partly explained by his use of what he called the “voices” (khmebi) of Russian and Ukrainian songs in several of his poems. Scholarly interpretations of this practice have diverged: some researchers have argued that Guramishvili directly borrowed the poetic meters of East Slavic songs, while others have maintained that the term voice should be understood primarily as denoting a tune rather than verbal prosody. Our comparative analysis demonstrates that in all such cases Guramishvili relied on the melodies of East Slavic songs and, in some instances, reproduced their metrical structures, but not their verbal rhythm. This feature of Guramishvili’s verse is closely connected with the traditions of ancient Georgian hymnography and folksongs, whose dependence on melody presupposed the equalization and isochronism of heterometric lines in performance. Only a limited number of the rhythmic forms introduced by Guramishvili in imitation of Russian and Ukrainian sung poetry were subsequently reinterpreted as standard verse meters and incorporated into Georgian metrics as a system through their adoption by later poets.

Juri Lotman’s Analysis of the Poetic Text: Its Censorship History and an Unpublished Chapter on Marina Tsvetaeva

2026-03-27T13:28:22+00:00

Based on archival materials and Juri Lotman’s correspondence with publishers and colleagues, this article reconstructs the editorial history of his Analysis of the Poetic Text (1972) and examines how ideological constraints influenced the book’s final form. The selection of poems for analysis emerged as a central issue in the author’s negotiations with the Leningrad branch of the Prosveshchenie publishing house: editors and reviewers urged the inclusion of poets from the nineteenth-century Romantic and Realist canon and pressed for the reduction or removal of twentiethcentury Modernist authors, most notably Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak. These interventions affected not only the corpus of examples but also the logic of Lotman’s argument, which was oriented toward demonstrating the methods and scope of immanent analysis rather than offering representative coverage of all periods of Russian literary history. The article also introduces Lotman’s previously unpublished chapter on Tsvetaeva’s poem “Ty, menja ljubivshij fal’sh’ju...” (“You, who loved me with the falseness...”). Read in the context of Lotman’s theoretical vocabulary and his readings of other poets in Analysis of the Poetic Text, this chapter offers a particularly clear illustration of his structuralist method.

Marina Tsvetaeva’s “You, who loved me with the falseness...”

2026-03-27T13:32:36+00:00

Marina Tsvetaeva’s “You, who loved me with the falseness...”

© 2026 Tallinn University. Copyright for the original text by Juri Lotman. A translation of an unreleased chapter from Juri Lotman’s Analysis of the Poetic Text. Translators: Igor Pilshchikov, Mikhail Trunin.

The work was supported by Tallinn University Research Fund’s grant TF2224.

Марина Цветаева. «Ты, меня любивший фальшью...»

2026-03-27T13:39:12+00:00

Марина Цветаева. «Ты, меня любивший фальшью...»

An unreleased chapter from Juri Lotman’s Analysis of the Poetic Text. Written in 1967. Published here for the first time from the original typescript: Tartu Ülikooli Raamatukogu. Käsikirjade ja haruldaste raamatute osakond (University of Tartu Library. Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books), fond 136, folder 104, fol. 336–342. Edited by Mikhail Trunin in the framework of Tallinn University Research Fund’s project TF2224.

Plotting Poetry 8: Skeletons in the Closet Conference Report

2026-03-27T13:42:58+00:00

Plotting Poetry 8: Skeletons in the Closet Conference Report

Marina Tarlinskaja at 90: A selected bibliography

2026-03-27T13:47:18+00:00

Marina Tarlinskaja at 90: A selected bibliography