Shakespeare of Stratford
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| Play | Total lines | Prose | Blank verse | Riming lines (5-ft.) | % Riming lines | % Feminine endings lines | % Run-on lines | No. light (weak) endings | % Speeches ending within line |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comedy of Errors | 1770 | 240 | 1150 | 380 | 19.4 | 16.6 | 12.9 | 0 | .6 |
| Love’s Labour’s Lost | 2789 | 1086 | 579 | 1028 | 62.2 | 7.7 | 18.4 | 3 | 10. |
| Two Gentlemen of Verona | 2060 | 409 | 1510 | 116 | 6.5 | 18.4 | 12.4 | 0 | 5.8 |
| 1 Henry VI | 2693 | 0 | 2379 | 314 | 10. | 8.2 | 10.4 | 4 | .5 |
| 2 Henry VI | 3032 | 448 | 2562 | 122 | 2.9 | 13.7 | 11.4 | 3 | 1.1 |
| 3 Henry VI | 2904 | 0 | 2749 | 155 | 3.4 | 13.7 | 9.5 | 3 | .9 |
| Titus Andronicus | 2525 | 43 | 2338 | 144 | 3.7 | 8.6 | 12. | 5 | 2.5 |
| Richard III | 3599 | 55 | 3374 | 170 | 3.5 | 19.5 | 13.1 | 4 | 2.9 |
| Midsummer Night’s Dream | 2251 | 441 | 878 | 731 | 43.4 | 7.3 | 13.2 | 1 | 17.3 |
| Richard II | 2644 | 0 | 2107 | 537 | 18.6 | 11. | 19.9 | 4 | 7.3 |
| Romeo & Juliet | 3002 | 405 | 2111 | 486 | 17.2 | 8.2 | 14.2 | 7 | 14.9 |
| King John | 2553 | 0 | 2403 | 150 | 5.5 | 6.3 | 17.7 | 7 | 12.1 |
| Merchant of Venice | 2705 | 673 | 1896 | 93 | 4.6 | 17.7 | 21.5 | 7 | 22.2 |
| Taming of the Shrew | 2671 | 516 | 1971 | 169 | 4.4 | 17.7 | 8.1 | 2 | 3.6 |
| 1 Henry IV | 3170 | 1464 | 1622 | 84 | 2.7 | 5.1 | 22.8 | 7 | 14.2 |
| 2 Henry IV | 3437 | 1860 | 1417 | 74 | 2.9 | 16.3 | 21.4 | 1 | 16.8 |
| Henry V | 3320 | 1531 | 1678 | 101 | 3.2 | 20.5 | 21.8 | 2 | 18.3 |
| Julius Cæsar | 2440 | 165 | 2241 | 34 | 1.2 | 19.7 | 19.3 | 10 | 20.3 |
| Merry Wives of Windsor | 3018 | 2703 | 227 | 69 | 6.4 | 27.2 | 20.1 | 1 | 20.5 |
| Much Ado about Nothing | 2823 | 2106 | 643 | 40 | 5.2 | 22.9 | 19.3 | 2 | 20.7 |
| As You Like It | 2904 | 1681 | 925 | 71 | 6.3 | 25.5 | 17.1 | 2 | 21.6 |
| Twelfth Night | 2684 | 1741 | 763 | 120 | 13.7 | 25.6 | 14.7 | 4 | 36.3 |
| Hamlet | 3924 | 1208 | 2490 | 81 | 2.7 | 22.6 | 23.1 | 8 | 51.6 |
| Troilus and Cressida | 3423 | 1186 | 2025 | 196 | 8.6 | 23.8 | 27.4 | 6 | 31.3 |
| Measure for Measure | 2809 | 1134 | 1574 | 73 | 3.6 | 26.1 | 23. | 7 | 51.4 |
| All’s Well that Ends Well | 2981 | 1453 | 1234 | 280 | 19.4 | 29.4 | 28.4 | 13 | 74. |
| Othello | 3324 | 541 | 2672 | 86 | 3.2 | 28.1 | 29.3 | 8 | 41.4 |
| Lear | 3298 | 903 | 2238 | 74 | 3.4 | 28.5 | 29.3 | 6 | 60.9 |
| Macbeth | 1993 | 158 | 1588 | 118 | 5.8 | 26.3 | 36.6 | 23 | 77.2 |
| Timon of Athens | 2358 | 596 | 1560 | 184 | 8.5 | 24.7 | 32.5 | 30 | 62.8 |
| Antony and Cleopatra | 3064 | 255 | 2761 | 42 | .7 | 26.5 | 43.3 | 99 | 77.5 |
| Pericles | 2386 | 418 | 1436 | 225 | 18.8 | 20.2 | 18.2 | 82 | 17.1 |
| Coriolanus | 3392 | 829 | 2521 | 42 | .7 | 28.4 | 45.9 | 104 | 79. |
| Cymbeline | 3448 | 638 | 2585 | 107 | 3.2 | 30.7 | 46. | 130 | 85. |
| Winter’s Tale | 2758 | 844 | 1825 | 0 | 0. | 32.9 | 37.5 | 100 | 87.6 |
| Tempest | 2068 | 458 | 1458 | 2 | .1 | 35.4 | 41.5 | 67 | 84.5 |
| Henry VIII | 2754 | 67 | 2613 | 16 | .3 | 47.3 | 46.3 | 84 | 72.4 |
