Great playwrights and poets are drummers – they craft the written word so that the rhythm and the cadence of their dialogue when spoken are a drumbeat, and combine with the meaning of the language to create emotion. Shakespeare, for example, used syllables as his drumbeats (as did many other playwrights and poets). Analyzing linguistic structure isn't a common application for a math tool (and for a very good reason), but can Maple tell us more about Shakespeare's favourite drumbeat?