sentences:  Nearly every well-known poet contemporary with Shakespeare has been suggested, including George Chapman, Christopher Marlowe, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Barnabe Barnes, Gervase Markham, and Richard Barnfield
  
  The second and third quatrains have garnered attention as possibly containing clues to the identity of the rival poet.The description of a poet "by spirits taught to write" (line 5) has led some to name George Chapman as candidate, due to Chapman's supposed spiritual inspiration by the ghost of Homer.The phrase "Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead" (line 6) has suggested to some Christopher Marlowe (who died in 1593) and his play "Tamburlaine the Great".