Poema

A rhizomatic approach to prosody

WITH A TRIPARTITE DIAGRAM FOR

AUDIO VISUALIZATION,
ANNOTATION,
& TRANSCRIPTION

Poema implements Praat display on the browser, and it extends the Tones and Breaks Indices (ToBI) framework by including beats and text to analyze rhythm and phrasing of spoken verse.

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The Red Wheelbarrow

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens
Figure 1. Sonification of William Carlos Williams’s “The Red Wheelbarrow,” first two stanzas, Library of Congress recording (1945). Data Source: PennSound.

The Poema display is made with wavesurjer.js and d3.js.