Page:Popular Science Monthly Volume 65.djvu/145

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
CHARACTERISTIC CURVES OF COMPOSITION
141

Table II.

Fig. 11 gives the word-curves constructed from five thousand averages of the two works.
Fig. 9. Five 1,000 Word-curves from Schiller's 'Kabale und Liebe.' (See Table II.) Fig. 10. Five 1,000 Word-curves from Schiller's 'Thirty Years' War.' (See Table II.)

Next I tabulated ten thousand words from Goldsmith, choosing the drama 'She Stoops to Conquer' and his essay on the 'Present State of Polite Learning in Europe.'

Table III.