John, Paul, George, Ringo and Will
The Beatles are now no less seminal than Shakespeare in English culture, and it was interesting to hear on the radio that someone has busied themselves setting Shakespeare’s sonnets to The Beatles’ music. Can’t find any links, but it made me wonder whether Wordle Word Clouds could bring out any synergies between The Beatles and Shakespeare. Here are two Word Clouds, one made from a complete text of Shakespeare’s sonnets, the other from the complete Beatles’ lyrics.
Apart from the inevitable LOVE, eyes, heart and time feature strongly. Might need to redo and remove the thees, thous and thys from Shakespeare’s text, since I think the algorithm has stripped “you” from the Beatles’ text. No “yeahs” or “yellow submarines”, obviously, in Shakespeare’s lyrics!
Shakespeare's Sonnets Word Cloud
Beatles Lyrics Word Cloud
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