Usage Frequency of Common and Unusual Words in Phillis Wheatley’s Acknowledged Poems and in Tentative Attributions
B. On the Affray in King-Street
1. On Night and Sleep
2. On the Death of Miss Inches
3. [New Year Poem for 1774]
4. Triumph of the Redeemer
5. Night: A Poem
6. On Night
7. Thoughts on Tyranny
8. A Rebus
9. Acrostick Answer to a Rebus
10. The Arrival
11. On General Gates
12. Reply to THE CONSTITUTION
13. [On the Death of George Eustis]
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WORD |
APPEARS IN NEW ATTRIBUTION # |
APPEARS IN NUMBER OF POEMS AMONG ACKNOWLEDGED POEMS (N = 56) |
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Afric/Africa/Africans |
#9, 11, 12 |
10 |
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America |
#7, 9 |
7 |
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Angels/angelic |
#4 |
7 |
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Aurora |
#1, 3, 4, 6 |
7 |
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Columbia |
#12 |
4 |
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Contemplation |
#5, 6 |
3 |
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Fancy/fancy’s/fancy’d |
#4 |
9 |
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Fly/flies/flight |
#2, 6 |
19 |
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Free/Freedom |
#7, 12, B |
11 |
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Friends/friendship |
#2, 7, 9, 12, B |
19 |
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Heaven/heav’n/heavn’ly |
#2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 11, 13 |
41 |
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Laurel |
#10, 11 |
6 |
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Lay/lays |
#4, 5 |
15 |
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Lo! |
#4, 5, B |
12 |
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Muse |
#2, 3, 5, 10, 11 |
26 |
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Phoebus |
#3 |
7 |
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Recollection |
#2 |
3 |
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Sable |
#1, 5, 12 |
8 |
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Seraph/seraphic/seraphim |
#4 |
7 |
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Shades/shade |
#6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, B |
9 |
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Snatch/snatch’d |
#13 |
6 |
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Sol |
#1 |
3 |
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Song |
#4, 5 |
15 |
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Soul |
#4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 13 |
30 |
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Sun |
#5, 6, 9, 10 |
10 |
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Tyrant/tyranny/tyrannic |
#2, 3, 7, 10, 13 |
12 |
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Virtue/virtues |
#10, 11, 12 |
15 |
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Zephyrs |
#4, 6 |
3 |