Lyric Parser

A Grounded Wren Project

Info

This subdomain is a tool to analyze song lyrics across discographies! It can be hard to keep track of running themes across all the years of releases from an artist, so having a place to poke through recurring words and phrases will hopefully prove helpful.

To make sure variants of the same words are counted together, I'm using a Porter Stemmer tool, which is based on an algorithm originally described in 1980 to remove suffixes.

I'm also removing common words in English from analysis based on this list of stop words.

I've pre-built Iron & Wine's discography because I'm a huge fan and I wanted to see the analysis. I've also built a couple others.

Most of the lyrics are lightly edited versions of what appears on genius.com, release artwork usually either comes from the artists' websites or from Spotify, and some release information was tracked down on MusicBrainz.org.

The code for this project lives in this repository :)

Reader Page

With this page you can review the pre-loaded discographies or your own created with the Builder page.

Builder Page

With this page you can enter a discography for your favorite artist, then save it to a JSON file to analyze!

Contact

I'm open to any feedback you have! My name is Vera, and here is my contact info page.