OK, so I'm doing this project for a class and I'm using a HashMap class but i want to modify it. I want to use a function stop common words ('the', 'a', 'there', 'is', etc.) from being counted in the HashMap. I have written some code for it, but obviously I'm not very good with processing so I don't know how to do this.

thus far I'm getting an 'unexpected token: stopwords' error.
does anyone know how to fix my code?!  


import ddf.minim.*;

Minim minim;
AudioPlayer player;

HashMap words;  

String[] tokens;  
int counter;

 String[] stopwords = {"a", "the", "is"};

PFont f;
PImage crow;

void setup() {
 size(550, 500);
 minim = new Minim(this);
   player = minim.loadFile("ravenReading.wav", 2048);
   player.loop();
 crow = loadImage("crow2.png");
 words = new HashMap();

 
 String[] lines = loadStrings("theRaven.txt");
 String allText = join(lines, " ");
 tokens = splitTokens(allText, " ,.?!:;[]-_");
 f = createFont("Herculanum", 36, true);  
}

void draw() {
 background(255);
 pushMatrix();
 String s = tokens[counter];
 counter = (counter + 1) % tokens.length;

 
 if (words.containsKey(s)) {
   Word w = (Word) words.get(s);
   w.count();
 } else {
   Word w = new Word(s);
 if ( isStopWord(s) == false ) words.put(s, w);  
 }
 

 Iterator i = words.values().iterator();


 float x = 10;
 float y = height-65;

 while (i.hasNext()) {
   
   Word w = (Word) i.next();
   
   if (w.count > 3) {
     int fsize = constrain(w.count, 10, 100);  
     textFont(f, fsize);
     text(w.word, x, y);
     x += textWidth(w.word + " ");
   }

   if (x > width) {    
     x = 0;
     y -= 10;
     if (y < 0) {    
       break;
     }
   }
 }
 popMatrix();
 image(crow, 0, 0);
 fill(0);
}

void stopwords {
   for (int i=0; i < stopwords.length; i++) {
     String stopword = stopwords[i];
     if ( stopwords.equals(word) ) return true;
   }
 else{
  return false;
 }
 }

class Word {
 
 int count;
 String word;
 
 Word(String s) {
   word = s;
   count = 1;
 }
 
 void count() {
   count++;
 }

}  

Thank you!!
No errors now, but when I run the code the words that I don't want to be counted are still showing up.
?
and I get and error with .equalsIgnoreCase
"cannot invoke equalsIgnoreCase(String) on the array type String[]"