This is a keyword analysis from the transcript of Barack Obama’s speech. It’s been done before already, but I couldn’t find it easily so I ran my own.
For anyone who thinks that you can write one of the most important Presidential speeches in recent history using the word ‘I’ fewer than 7 times, I dare you to try.
Frequency and top words :
| Word | Occurrences | Frequency | Rank |
| our | 47 | 5.8% | 1 |
| bin | 15 | 1.9% | 2 |
| laden | 15 | 1.9% | 2 |
| al | 13 | 1.6% | 3 |
| qaeda | 11 | 1.4% | 4 |
| people | 9 | 1.1% | 5 |
| against | 9 | 1.1% | 5 |
| war | 8 | 1% | 6 |
| i | 8 | 1% | 6 |
| country | 7 | 0.9% | 7 |
| american | 7 | 0.9% | 7 |
| pakistan | 7 | 0.9% | 7 |
| united | 7 | 0.9% | 7 |
| us | 7 | 0.9% | 7 |
| citizens | 6 | 0.7% | 8 |
| tonight | 6 | 0.7% | 8 |
| justice | 5 | 0.6% | 9 |
| years | 5 | 0.6% | 9 |
| do | 5 | 0.6% | 9 |
| states | 5 | 0.6% | 9 |