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Scholars such as Bradley and Goswin König have estimated approximate dates of undated works of Shakespeare by studying the proportion of end-stopping to enjambment, the former being more typical of Shakespeare's early plays, the latter a feature of his later plays.
154:, "a line may be called 'end-stopped' when the sense, as well as the metre, would naturally make one pause at its close; 'run-on' when the mere sense would lead one to pass to the next line without any pause." 155: 94: 66: 113: 73: 51: 47: 80: 43: 62: 168: 32: 271: 36: 266: 143: 87: 8: 221:, the first and third lines are enjambed while the second and fourth are end-stopped: 218: 229: 260: 151: 192: 251: 147: 21: 178:
Surprised I was with sudden heat, which made my heart to glow;
150:, where the sentence runs on into the next line. According to 139: 135: 131: 171:; the end of each line corresponds to the end of a clause. 176:
As I in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow,
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And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near,
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A pretty babe all burning bright did in the air appear.
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