This is an analysis of Thomas Chatterton by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

WITH Shakspeare's manhood at a boy's wild heart,—
Through Hamlet's doubt to Shakspeare near allied,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacddccd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 01001110111 1101010111 1101010101 1111111101 10011100101 10011111101 010001110101 1011111101 1101110100 0101011111 11001100111 11011101011 1111011101 1110110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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