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Yes, but... so what? We see this type of analysis often, but I never see where it gets used to help understand something new, or make anything more clear. How do stories written with each of those plots differ? Do they vary in popularity over time? Why only those six, why not Rise-Fall-Rise-Fall or Fall-Rise-Fall-Rise? Etc.


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