Two linkable lists are provided, one sorted by frequency of occurence (e.g. "the" with 249 occurences, all the way down to words like Naishapur, which occur only once), and another sorted alphabetically. A linkable alphabet is provided to enable entering the alphabetic list at any desired letter. Both of these lists link to a master list of all the lines in which given words occur, with the word in question highlighted. This list is in turn linkable, by the stanza number preceding each line, to a window in which one may view the complete quatrain in which the line occurs.

It is of interest to note a couple of significant differences between the vocabulary frequency patterns observed in these two parallel versions. Brodie's contains, on the one hand, a greater number of different words than FitzGerald's
(1431 vs. 1129); and it also contains a significantly larger number of words occurring only once (1008 vs. 680). On the other hand, FitzGerald's uses a correspondingly greater number of the high frequency little connecting words: "the" 249 vs. 121; "and" 173 vs. 67; "of" 119 vs. 61.

The reason for this is that the extremely tight constraint of being a perfect anagram, on top of being a validly scanning poem which captures the meaning of the original without reusing any keywords, and at least approximates both the original's sytlistic virtuosity and its sublimity of expression, results in having to go somewhat farther afield lexicographically. This ends up giving a unique result which is, if anything, even more "poetic" sounding than ordinary poetry (by which I mean to say is distinctly different from prose), but which also exhibits somewhat less thematic interconnectivity.  Ironically, however, the anagram often ends up being less indirect about the subject matter.

FitzGerald's custom is to capitalize nouns, however he is not completely consistent, occasionally capitalizing adjectives and failing to capitalize nouns. For the purpose of our indexes, we follow this convention strictly, and in addition use all capitals for proper names. In this way most homonyms can be differentiated without an explicit part of speech designation: the noun will be capitalized and the corresponding verb, adjective, etc. will not. In the case of homonyms not distinguishable in this way, additional information is provided. For example:

Left:  "But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes"
left (not right) "Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky" 
left (abandoned) "They left and Summer dresses in new Bloom"