Calculate Overall Sentiment Score — sentiment_score • lyricsLab

Computes a single sentiment score for entire lyrics using the syuzhet package. Prints a clean summary to the console and returns results invisibly.

Usage

sentiment_score(lyrics_obj, method = "afinn")

Arguments

lyrics_obj: Lyrics object from get_lyrics()
method: Sentiment method: "afinn", "bing", or "nrc". Default "afinn"

Value

Invisibly returns a list containing:

score - Raw sentiment score
normalized_score - Score normalized to 0-100
interpretation - Text description of sentiment
method - Method used
song - Track title
artist - Artist name
positive_ratio - Proportion of positive lines
negative_ratio - Proportion of negative lines
scores - Per-line sentiment scores

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
lyrics <- get_lyrics("Adele", "Someone Like You")
sentiment_score(lyrics)

# Use a different method
sentiment_score(lyrics, method = "bing")
} # }