After converting the text into a sequence of 5 digit codes, Clark and Tran used the numerical coarse-graining method to drive the IFS.
Here are the results for all of Shakespeare's sonnets (left) and all of Wordsworth's sonnets (right).
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There is little visible pattern, except possibly a slight decrease in density along the Wordsworth diagonal.
Most often, here the transformation associated with a word is determined by the alphabetic ordering of the first letter of the word.
This is why Clark and Tran called this the primary structure of the sonnets.
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