Automatic quantitative metrical analysis of Spanish Poetry with Rantanplan: a first approach

Automatic analysis of poetic texts has received notable attention from the scholarly community in recent times. For Spanish Poetry, approaches for scansion and syllabification, as well as rhyme analysis, have been implemented. However, automatic extraction and quantification of stanzas and metrical structures –a complex task given the abundance, variety, and frequent irregularity of structures– remains unexplored