P.A.N. (Poetic Analyzer)

The program will now go through the text checking for unfamiliar lexis. For each of these, it will ask you to define the word, assign a theme to it from a given list, it will also ask you which theme (from that same list) is most different from the word, what the most common root is and what its part of speech is. The program learns from you and the more words you define, the more it will remember. Still, the process is quite tedious especially when asked to define words like "have" and having to assign themes to it. I managed to get through the whole process for the following two poems:

Translation 1:

Our Passover Seder is closed and completed.

Its ordered tradition in honor repeated.

As our merit was large when the rite was begun.

Be it no less when 'tis ended and done.

Thou Pure One who dwellest where eye hath not mounted,

O lift up the heads of Thy children uncounted.

Speedily may they, the seed of Thy choice.

In Zion delivered exult and rejoice.

Maurice Samuel, 1942

Translation 2:

The Passover Seder has ended as it should,

having performed all its rules as best we could,

just as we have been privileged to perform it today,

let us be worthy to hold it again in this same way,

Pure One, who dwells above,

uplift the community of the promise of love,

by bringing close the offshoots of Your planting,

in salvation, to Zion, joyous songs chanting.

Rabbi Michael Graetz, 1993

Upon analyzing, the PAN results were cryptic to say the least. It interprets clauses (which it self-defines), it detects "elements" and conflicting themes and makes rather mystic statements about "the speaker".

The 1942 text was cut up into 30 (!) different "clauses" with "Detected Elements" like: Spirituality, Future Tense, Youth, Femininity, Exposure, Appreciation, Purity, Awareness, the Natural, Life, Desire, Honesty, Peace, Innocence, Love, Revelation.

In contrast, the 1993 text yielded a mere TWO "clauses" with elements such as: The Natural, Revelation, Future Tense, Peace, Health, Youth, Femininity, Life, Innocence, Desire, Exposure, Appreciation, Awareness, Positivism and Peace.

Comparing the two, that would mean that aside from what they have in common, the 1942 poem reveals more Spirituality, Purity, Honesty and Love while the 1993 poem leans more towards Health and Positivism. This seems strange taking into consideration that it is the 1993 poem in which God's promise of LOVE is mentioned and claiming a lack of positivism for a 1942 poem which expresses the hope for a speedy delivery rendered in the middle of WWII - quite bizarre.

The poems both reveal a change of mood between lines 3 and 4, looking back at what was done and expressing hopes for the future (just like the original Hebrew poem does). And in its own curious, incomprehensible way, PAN seems to have picked up on this with its "Extended State" analysis: