Dataset of Spanish Poems from ciudadseva.com. It comprises a total of 12,555 poems from 295 authors (45 countries).
Using BeautifulSoup, ciudadseva.com was scrapped and a poem's corpus was generated.
Main files:
scrape_poems.py: generates- (1) index of all authors
- (2) list of links to all poems
- (3) a corpus directory.
reformat.py: creates (4) corpus.csv.
Corpus:
Available in corpusdirectory or corpus.csv file.
(1) ciudadseva.csv: index of all authors.
| name | link | country | date |
|---|---|---|---|
| manuel-acuna | https://ciudadseva.com/autor/manuel-acuna/poemas/ | México | 1849-1873 |
(2) poems.csv: list of links to all poems from each author.
| name | title | link |
|---|---|---|
| manuel-acuna | A Asunción | https://ciudadseva.com/texto/a-asuncion/ |
(3) corpus directory containing all poems in txt format.
corpus
├── author1
│ ├── poem1.txt
│ ├── poem2.txt
├── author2
│ ├── poem1.txt
├── author3
│ ├── poem1.txt
│ ├── poem2.txt
│ ├── poem3.txt
(4) corpus.csv: main file with all poems from each author in the following format:
| name | title | stanza | texto |
|---|---|---|---|
| manuel-acuna | A Asunción | 1 | Mire usted, Asunción: aunque algún ángel |
| manuel-acuna | A Asunción | 1 | Metiéndose envidioso, |
| manuel-acuna | A Asunción | ... | ... |
| manuel-acuna | A Asunción | 2 | No vaya usted a rendirse |
| manuel-acuna | A Asunción | 2 | Ante el ruego o las lágrimas y a irse… |
| manuel-acuna | A Asunción | ... | ... |
| manuel-acuna | A Asunción | 3 | Conque mucho cuidado |
| manuel-acuna | A Asunción | 3 | Si siente usted un ángel a su lado, |
| Type | Count |
|---|---|
| authors | 295 |
| poems | 12,555 |
| verses | 419,865 |
| tokens | 2,640,674 |
| countries | 45 |
| regions | 7 |
Given that the dataset is in Spanish, the majority of poems belong to Spanish speakers countries. There are, however, considerable translations from other languages, specially of literature's classics.
Most of the poems come from Europe and Latin America (~5,800 poems each). Spain is the country with more poets (85), more poems (3,779), and more tokens (776,423). Within Latin America, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Argentina account for the first three majorities.
The following plots summarizes the number of authors, poems, and tokens per region and country.
- beautifulsoup4 == 4.12.0
- requests == 2.28.2
- pandas == 1.5.3