Parts of speech, Czech, sonnet, Busemann?s coefficient, h-point, vocabulary richness, repeat rate, entropy

The genre of sonnet has been a traditional must-write of all lyric poets since Renaissance; it has shaped itself into many a form, usually following the possibilities of individual national languages. Here, a sample of the Czech sonnet production - Letní sonety (1890-91) by Josef Svatopluk Machar, a poet of the 1890s generation - will be analysed. First, the distribution of parts-of-speech in the rhyme words will be investigated; next, various stylistic indicators (activity counts, repeat rate, entropy, h-point, thematic concentration, and the curve-length index of vocabulary richness) will be calculated. The workings of the indicators will be explained in suitable places.