PEB line 11 - the data
John Bjarne Grover
The data I bring here are based on the assumption that the essence of PEB line 11 is in the fundamental theorem of linguistics - that means that the function 11 (at least the one I study here) will be in terms of a list of those words which occur twice and only twice on a line 11 in the book of 366 poems.
I have used a mechanical procedure of word editing - removing all interpunctuation and other superfluous signs - leaving only the words and counting surface form, ignoring derivations. This means that 'light' and 'lights' will be two different words - and indeed that is an interesting fact (see below). Interestingly, I first made a listing wherein I closed the gap resulting when the apostrophe in genitives and 3rd person singular appended the 's' to the word stem - but when I did the same without closing this gap, the result was exactly the same.
There are 94 or 95 such words that occur twice and only twice on line 11. The 95th is from PEB poem #108 - the date "18.8.08" which, when interpunctuation is removed, leaves either "18 8 08" or "18 8 8". If the latter is allowed, then there are two 8-digits - both on line 11 in poem 108 (!) - and that gives 95 occurrences, otherwise there are only 94. I decided to include this 8-digit (cp the octogons!) as entry #95.
There are two ways of sorting the data - I bring both lists here:
1) The alphabetic ordering of the words - then there will to each word be the number it has in the alphabetized list plus the two numbers of the poems of PEB wherein it occurs on a line 11, and
2) the ordering by ascending order of the poem of PEB wherein the word occurs - that will be two lists - one for the first occurrence and one for the second.
Here are the two lists - words occurring twice and only twice in line 11's of the 366 poems of PEB:
1) By the alphabetic ordering of these words:
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No. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. |
Word about across after ahead air before but cable call calle campo climbs clothes coat computer con could counter darkness ear earth eye eyes far faraway father feel female females fingers fits flat four gold got greek hair has hat have him hip holding holds inside la light lights little lot lust makes march may meet men metal more move name open paper pen people piece rather reach san shades side silvery single smile something stand tells these thing though through towards tried waiting walking wall water waves waving well which wife wood would yellow 8 |
1st occ. PEB # 205 240 174 2 258 349 64 29 33 171 16 169 303 260 109 182 33 215 292 1 12 292 199 191 229 5 85 294 250 173 255 12 45 32 172 27 4 85 284 40 149 139 10 44 221 82 104 90 287 60 3 59 124 300 250 86 20 259 8 6 38 34 38 47 124 275 37 16 8 80 179 276 157 60 132 9 250 30 254 77 237 41 291 275 15 240 110 224 12 319 25 253 26 57 108 |
2nd occ. PEB # 213 362 320 222 340 273 135 232 150 219 230 301 348 318 288 154 68 338 345 4 265 337 200 290 296 145 207 363 259 347 339 34 259 327 190 103 44 125 318 257 320 211 14 320 335 356 151 144 302 299 123 366 197 364 326 165 360 311 293 152 116 105 160 351 303 290 310 247 200 317 183 306 220 190 356 287 325 276 316 344 288 322 354 307 75 362 297 258 131 344 326 358 161 225 108 |
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No. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. |
Word ear ahead lust hair father name move shades tells holding earth flat well wall campo san metal wife would greek cable thing gold call could paper reach open pen have tried holds four people yellow makes lot something but through side la feel has men lights light 8 computer waves march piece stand hip him smile climbs calle got fingers after silvery con far eyes about counter inside waving faraway towards across water females meet these wood though fits air more coat rather walking single hat little waiting darkness eye female may clothes which before |
1st occ. PEB # 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 8 9 10 12 12 12 15 16 16 20 25 26 27 29 30 32 33 33 34 37 38 38 40 41 44 45 47 57 59 60 60 64 77 80 82 85 85 86 90 104 108 109 110 124 124 132 139 149 157 169 171 172 173 174 179 182 191 199 205 215 221 224 229 237 240 240 250 250 250 253 254 255 258 259 260 275 275 276 284 287 291 292 292 294 300 303 319 349 |
No. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. |
Word ear holding flat hair could wall greek paper 8 open lust has well but lights father call light name con pen would men silvery got something march eyes shades feel hip about calle smile ahead yellow campo cable san have waving females four earth before thing tells computer towards far rather move faraway waves lot climbs little piece single walking reach more though side coat hat after him holds tried these meet wife gold inside eye counter fits air through which darkness fingers clothes people waiting la stand wood metal across water female may makes |
2nd occ. PEB # 4 14 34 44 68 75 103 105 108 116 123 125 131 135 144 145 150 151 152 154 160 161 165 183 190 190 197 200 200 207 211 213 219 220 222 225 230 232 247 257 258 259 259 265 273 276 287 288 288 290 290 293 296 297 299 301 302 303 306 307 310 311 316 317 318 318 320 320 320 322 325 326 326 327 335 337 338 339 340 344 344 345 347 348 351 354 356 356 358 360 362 362 363 364 366 |
© John Bjarne Grover
I point to some interesting details: The mid entry will be #48 - in the first list that divides 'light' from 'lights' (by the half if only 94 entries are included, without #95), in the second list one finds '8' on this mid point - that is the last entry in the first list and it is #9 in the second of the second list. Notice that entries 1 and 4 are the same in the two occurrences of the second list - and that this lends to the first 8 entries in the second of the second list an interesting observation - followed by the digit '8' as #9.
On the web 4 february 2018