Kates of Wrath Keywords

I used Sketch Engine to create a list of the top 50 keywords (and multi-word chunks) from the book of poetry I wrote and published in December, the Kates of Wrath. First I uploaded the text of my book as a corpus - a very teeny tiny pile of words, only like 8k or so.

Here are the top 51 keywords compared to the reference corpus called something like English tenten 2013, which I don't really know much about.

1. perfect interface - appears NOWHERE in the reference corpus. Hahaha
2. nice dress
3. dear friend
4. teenager
5. goad
6. aerate
7. ire
8. anger
9. adolescence
10. cuz
11. immature
12. fury
13. ripple
14. wrath
15. poem
16. shatter
17. cruel
18. Czech
19. drip
20. ache
21. dough
22. pity
23. grin
24. Danny
25. friendship
26. horrible
27. breeze
28. dumb
29. prototype
30. nasty
31. silly
32. mad 
33. loop
34. whisper
35. dare
36. rage
37. stain
38. lawn
39. shine
40. dear
41. sigh
42. gonna
43. awake
44. math
45. beneath
46. terrible
47. flaw
48. endless
49. stranger
50. pile
51. underneath

Here is the raw frequency data:

Item	Score	Freq	Ref_freq
Teenager	248.83	3	4165
ire	197.21	4	22476
Sh__t	196.61	2	1
Tautology	196.38	2	28
Gimmee	195.61	2	117
hummock	183.19	2	1666
Challis	181.63	2	1875
tussock	180.21	2	2070
goad	179.78	3	14494
Brontë	179.06	2	2229
aerate	171.99	3	16181
Hatred	168.24	2	3834
Anger	159.69	3	19177
invisibly	142.16	2	8706
immaturity	131.16	2	11343
Poem	120.95	2	14220
hee	100.06	2	21932
Nightmare	99.82	2	22042
schmautological	98.81	1	0
hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm	98.81	1	0
crankeny	98.81	1	0
Unfriendship	98.81	1	0
Tautologocial	98.81	1	0
doorlessly	98.8	1	1
Yuckiness	98.8	1	1
Blushworthy	98.8	1	1
yalping	98.8	1	3
shruggery	98.8	1	3
muggery	98.79	1	5
Vapidity	98.78	1	7
Bashfulness	98.78	1	7
repiece	98.77	1	8
needfinding	98.77	1	8
wion	98.76	1	12
Willfulness	98.75	1	14
Amiability	98.75	1	14
SNARKY	98.74	1	16
Quirkiness	98.74	1	16
Licentiousness	98.73	1	18
Joviality	98.73	1	18
Clinking	98.73	1	18
Naiveté	98.72	1	21
NCMO	98.68	1	29
Xylophones	98.68	1	30
Reasonability	98.67	1	32
Scheiss	98.61	1	47
Zombification	98.46	1	81

Here is the data as compared to a different corpus taken from the internet in 2018.

Item	Score	Freq	Ref_freq
Teenager	245.72	3	168
aerate	235.74	3	211
Tautology	196.62	2	0
Sh__t	196.62	2	0
Gimmee	196.62	2	0
hummock	194.33	2	10
cuz	193.66	3	441
tussock	191.64	2	22
Anger	190.55	3	462
hee	185.25	2	52
Challis	180.83	2	74
Hatred	178.31	2	87
invisibly	174.76	2	106
Brontë	174.4	2	108
goad	169.69	3	623
Poem	164.74	2	164
immaturity	144.46	2	306
poem	142.56	16	8462
immature	127.93	3	1103
adolescence	126.76	3	1121
grin	119.49	6	3322
ache	118.89	5	2646
fright	114.02	2	614
ire	106.56	4	2272
ho	104.57	2	746
Austen	101.39	2	796
crappy	100.9	2	804
yalping	98.81	1	0
shruggery	98.81	1	0
schmautological	98.81	1	0
repiece	98.81	1	0
needfinding	98.81	1	0
muggery	98.81	1	0
hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm	98.81	1	0
doorlessly	98.81	1	0
crankeny	98.81	1	0
cinchy	98.81	1	0
Yuckiness	98.81	1	0
Xylophones	98.81	1	0
Willfulness	98.81	1	0
Vapidity	98.81	1	0
Unfriendship	98.81	1	0
Tautologocial	98.81	1	0
SNARKY	98.81	1	0
Quirkiness	98.81	1	0
Naiveté	98.81	1	0
NCMO	98.81	1	0

Notice that the keywords are different when you change the reference corpus. Also, something went amiss with the diacritical marks. Hmm. 

I need to go get some other things done. But this is fascinating. I have to remember though that raw frequency is not the ultimate measure of everything. It is, however, interesting to see how the keywords vary. Maybe things changed online between 2013 and 2018. It is fun.