From graphemic dependence to lexical structure: a Markovian perspective on Dante's Commedia

This study investigates the structural organisation of Dante's Divina Commedia through a symbolic representation based on vowel-consonant (V/C) encoding. Modelling the resulting sequence through Markov chains provides parsimonious measures of local graphemic dependence, capturing persistence and alternation patterns. Across the poem, these measures reveal canto-level variation, with a clearer longitudinal trend from the Inferno to the Paradiso in the two-state compared to the four-state model. Trigram analysis identifies a restricted set of recurrent configurations acting as graphemic probes, allowing local dependency patterns to be examined in identifiable lexical environments. A complem...

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