

ptervin
Absolutely Sweet Marie posted Aug 5 2008 by ptervin

Bob Dylan's lyrics show an absolutely sweet use of the English language not found in many of the popular songs of other singers and groups. Even simple totals start to show this difference. In comparison to the RS500 total word count of 112,595, Dylan's 402 songs use a total of 113,831 words. Dylan's lexis is also higher: 7,925 to 6,577.