Excerpt from The Marlowe Canon
The percentage of riming lines decreases pretty regularly as the percent age oi final polysyllables increases. If we take the polysyllables as a mark of Marlowe's hand, the largest traces of that poet would seem to be in the scenes dealing with Dido's first meeting with [eneas and the tale of Troy's destruction (with a falling off in the latter portion - lines 500-600 - which includes the story of Priam's death); and in the scenes portraying the development of Dido's love (11. 600-800) and the final parting (11. 1500 The passages speciallv lacking in final polysyllables are often noticeably unlike Marlowe; e. G., the jupiter-ganymede prologue, which has no dramatic purpose; the flat rendering of the opening of the feneid (134 the alter cation between ]uno and Venus (811 the jealousy of Iarbas and scene at the cave (911 and the episode of Iarbas and Anna (1095 Perhaps, however, the unevenness may be due as much to youthful inability to sustain the high style as to divided authorship.
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