Alliteration Explorer

About

This tool explores alliteration patterns across 4.35 million verse lines from Finnish (SKVR, Julkaisemattomat Runot) and Estonian (ERAB) runosong corpora. In runosong (Kalevala-meter poetry), strong alliteration means two or more content words in a verse line starting with the same letter. Weak alliteration means vowel-initial content words together (all vowels alliterate in the Finnic tradition).

Keyboard Shortcuts

/ Focus search S Share URL X CSV export R Random letter ? Toggle this help 1 Letters tab 2 Verses tab 3 Compare tab 4 Corpus Rates tab Esc Close help

Features

Initial Sound Browser: Click a letter to see the most common alliterative word pairs starting with that letter.
Search: Type a word to see its top alliterative partners (words sharing the same initial that co-occur in verses).
Top Verses: Browse the most alliterative verses in the corpus, ranked by alliteration density and word count.
Language Comparison: Compare alliteration patterns between Estonian and Finnish traditions.
Compare Letters: Select two letters to see shared/unique pairs and statistical comparison.
CSV Export: Export the current view data as a CSV file.

Data

Data is sharded by initial letter for fast loading. Each shard contains word-level alliteration statistics including co-occurrence frequencies and partner lists.