Thinking about magic squares, I had the idea of doing something roughly similar with words, but using usage patterns rather than arithmetic equations. I'm pasting below an example, using statistical data from Poe's texts:

Poe

the	same	manner	as	if
most	moment	in	this	we
intense	and	his	head	were
excitement	which	i	have	no
greatly	he	could	not	one

The word on the top-left cell in the grid is the most frequently used in Poe's writing, "the" — unsurprisingly so, as it's the most frequently used word in the English language. Now, the word immediately to its right, "same," is there because "same" is one of the words that follows "the" most often in the texts we're looking at. The word below "the" is "most" because it also follows "the" very often. "Moment" is set to the right of "most" and below "same" because it's the word that most frequently follows both.

The same pattern is used to fill the entire 5-by-5 square. If you start at the topmost left square and then move down and/or to the right, although you won't necessarily be constructing syntactically correct phrases, the consecutive word pairs will be frequent ones in Poe's writing.

Although there are no ravens or barely sublimated necrophilia in the matrix, the texture of the matrix is rather appropriate, if not to Poe, at least to Romanticism. To convince you of that, here are the equivalent 5-by-5 matrices for Swift and Chesterton.

Swift

the	world	and	then	he
same	in	his	majesty	would
manner	a	little	that	it
of	certain	to	have	is
their	own	make	no	more

Chesterton

the	man	who	had	been
other	with	that	no	one
and	his	it	said	syme
then	own	is	i	could
there	are	only	think	be

At least compared against each other, it wouldn't be too far fetched to say that Poe's matrix is more Poe's than Chesterton's, and vice versa!

PS: Because I had a sudden attack of curiosity, here's the 5-by-5 matrix for my newest collection of short stories, Time of Punishment (pdf link).

Time of Punishment

the	school	whole	and	even
first	dance	both	then	four
charge	rants	resistance	they	think
of	a	hundred	found	leads
punishment	new	astronauts	month	sleep

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