word analysis

A Prospect of the Sea
570 word sample taken from the first paragraph of Dylan Thomas’s A Prospect of the Sea.
21 sentences total
Adjectives
High, hot, unbrokenly, blue, warm, before, golden, sevenleague, lashing, moving, drowned, broken, stretched, broken, dead, black, royal, green, best, first, full, blue, house, nameless, wonderful, lazy, half, nice, nice, summer
Total adjectives: 39 or 7% of total words
Neutral adjectives: 20 or 50% of total adjectives
Positive adjectives: 13 or 33% of total adjectives
Negative adjectives: 6 or 15% of total adjectives
Color adjectives: 7 or 18% of total adjectives

Nouns

Summer, corn, work, weather, corn, noise, birds, branches, trees, house, corn, wind, rain, noon, rabbits, cattle, cat, arms, head, sea, corn, waves, heavens, bird, boots, fields, nest, trees, hands, hill, boy, hair, feet, corn, strip, river, hillside, fingers, water, sea-wave, stones, weeds, fingers, tower pillars, water, fish, head, tail, tower gates, pebbles, bed, princess, christmas book, shoulders, pigtails, strings, fiddle, throat, net, fish, hair, story, end, story, beginning, princess, mermaid, net, prince, story, tails, hair, shoulder-bone, harp, tunes, courts, country, boy, stone, water, rabbit, tail, fish, gnats, lark, earth, summer, seasons, world, God, God, summer, winds, heat, pigeons, wood, chimneys, hills, distance, trees, women, men, sun, cranes, coal-tips, distance, hill, trees, words, sky, sun, country, birds, corn

Total nouns: 123 or 22% of total words

Repeated nouns:

Corn: 7
Summer: 4
Bird(s): 3 (plus 3 species)
Tree(s): 4
Water- 2
Sun: 3
Fish: 3
Sea: 2
Rabbit(s): 2
Hill((s)ide): 4
Tail(s): 3
Living things: 55 (45% of nouns)
Natural things: 92 (75% of nouns)
Dead things: Possibly 1
References to the weather or time of year: 14
Body parts: 14

Like: 6
No: 6
Winter in the Blood

~570 word sample taken from the beginning of Winter in the Blood.

31 sentences total

Adjectives

Tall, sorrel, burnt, shady, bare, gray, stark, hot, swollen, white, loose, raging, wild, white, easy, even, bad, black, furry, burnt, blazing, pale, green, milky, dry, cracked, deep, empty, terrible

Total adjectives: 29 or 51% of total words
Neutral adjectives: 17 or 59% of total adjectives
Positive adjectives: 1 or 3% of total adjectives
Negative adjectives: 11 or 38% of total adjectives
Color adjectives: 6 or 21% of total adjectives

Nouns

Weeds, pit, leak, mare, colt, grass, cabin, place, name, roof, mud, logs, chunks, skeleton, mice, insects, tumble weeds, home, bone, wind, wall, hill, cabin, barbed wire, graves, Earthboys, daughter, man, Lodgepole, Earthboys, fence, sun, back, highway, eye, man, wife, drinks, tongue, flame, music, eyes, Rocky Boy, money, breasts, hair, home, cinch, torture, throat, knee, head, heat, mare, colt, cabin, graveyard, hills, Little Rockies, haze, home, mother, old lady, grandmother, girl, wife, reason, hatred, love, guilt, conscience, distance, years, country, prarie, sun, Milk River, valley, waters, river, sagebrush, cottonwoods, flats, country, distance, people, distance, distance, country, people, hawk, moon, feelings, mother, grandmother, girl, highway, fence, two miles, home, throat, thirst

Total nouns: 102 or 18% of total words

Repeated nouns:

Mare: 2
Colt: 2
Graves/graveyard: 2
Distance: 4
Sun: 2
River: 2
Home: 4
Mother: 2
Grandmother: 2
Cabin: 3
Throat: 2
Hill(s): 2
People: 2
Country: 2
Girl: 2
Body parts: 11
Living things: 33(32% of nouns)
Dead things: 8
Natural things: 49 (48% of nouns)
References to weather or time of year: 5

Like: 0
No: 6

Some adjectives and nouns that the two stories share

Summer, distance, hill, throat, head, hair, water, heat, man/men, weeds, wind, river, sun, green, black, etc.