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    • Versification and Authorship Attribution, Paperback by Plechác, Petr, ISBN 8024648717, ISBN-13 9788024648712, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

      <b>A clever investigation into two unsolved mysteries of poetic authorship.<br> &#160;</b><br> The technique known as contemporary stylometry uses different methods, including machine learning, to discover a poem&#8217;s author based on features like the frequencies of words and character n-grams. However, there is one potential textual fingerprint stylometry tends to ignore: versification, or the very making of language into verse. Using poetic texts in three different languages (Czech, German, and Spanish), Petr Plech&#225;&#269; asks whether versification features like rhythm patterns and types of rhyme can help determine authorship. He then tests his findings on two unsolved literary mysteries. In the first, Plech&#225;&#269; distinguishes the parts of the Elizabethan verse play <i>The Two Noble Kinsmen</i> written by William Shakespeare from those written by his coauthor, John Fletcher. In the second, he seeks to solve a case of suspected forgery: how authentic was a group of poems first published as the work of the nineteenth-century Russian author Gavriil Stepanovich Batenkov? This book of poetic investigation should appeal to literary sleuths the world over.<br> &#160;<br> &#160;
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