[Verse 1] Did the Bard of Avon truly pen those plays Or was it Bacon, Marlowe in disguise For centuries the scholars raised debates But algorithms opened up our eyes They count the words that authors use unseen The "ands" and "ofs" in patterns crystal clear What human minds could never hope to glean Machines detected in each written sphere [Chorus] Stylometry reads between the lines Function words reveal the author's mind Principal components help us see Shakespeare's true identity Neural networks parse each phrase Solving mysteries of the plays The data speaks what critics couldn't find [Verse 2] They measured sentence length and syntax flow Vocabulary richness, word frequency Hundreds of variables in one big show Reduced to dimensions we can clearly see When plotted out, Will Shakespeare stands apart From Bacon, Marlowe, and de Vere's style Each author has a literary heart That beats in patterns, mile after mile [Chorus] Stylometry reads between the lines Function words reveal the author's mind Principal components help us see Shakespeare's true identity Neural networks parse each phrase Solving mysteries of the plays The data speaks what critics couldn't find [Bridge] But wait, the algorithms found much more Some plays showed signatures of two or three Henry Sixth and Titus bore Collaborative authorship we see Middleton helped craft parts of Macbeth Fletcher joined for Henry Number Eight Machine learning shows us what's beneath The surface of each literary fate [Chorus] Stylometry reads between the lines Function words reveal the author's mind Principal components help us see Shakespeare's true identity Neural networks parse each phrase Solving mysteries of the plays The data speaks what critics couldn't find [Outro] So Shakespeare wrote what Shakespeare wrote it's true But sometimes friends would lend a helping hand The mystery solved by algorithms new Computer science helps us understand
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