The reader has to process novel elements like blank verse, Elizabethan English, and poetic creativity.
Much[1] of this is simply formatting. Capitalizing the first word of every line makes my parser initially assume it missed a question mark at the end of the first line, which is made worse by the fact that “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood?” is close enough to a valid sentence.
I find said quote significantly easier to read if you reformat it somewhat:
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.
(That is, 2-space indent at the start of any lines that don’t start a sentence.)
(Of course, poetry fans will kill me[2] for reformatting poetry.)
Much[1] of this is simply formatting. Capitalizing the first word of every line makes my parser initially assume it missed a question mark at the end of the first line, which is made worse by the fact that “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood?” is close enough to a valid sentence.
I find said quote significantly easier to read if you reformat it somewhat:
(That is, 2-space indent at the start of any lines that don’t start a sentence.)
(Of course, poetry fans will kill me[2] for reformatting poetry.)
Not all.
Not literally.