metaphors
poems per year. drag over them to take any stretch of the dated corpus, not only everything up to a date. the comparisons the corpus makes most often, in 1310–2025. This is a map of all metaphors extracted by Muse Spark 1.2 and Cohere Command A models over 163k poems; a pair appears here only when both models identified the same metaphor in the same poem. The page includes all 139,297 metaphors across 75,529 poems where the models found at least one metaphor. See my writeup here. there are 139,297 metaphors across 75,529 poems. drag to pan, scroll to zoom, refit to frame the whole thing again. click a word to hold it open, click a line to see matching poems in this dataset. web is every word and every link at once; radial puts what you hold at the centre with everything it is likened to around it, and every link among those drawn back across the middle; walk finds the shortest chain of comparisons from one word to another. let go steps out web radial walk refit 9,454 words and 26,419 l