This is an analysis of Anne Hathaway's Cottage by Mathilde Blind.

IS this the Cottage, ivy-girt and crowned,
And this the path down which our Shakespeare ran,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cddccd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 0001010111 1001111111 1001000111 1101010111 11111101001 1101011101 01001011101 1111010101 0111110111 1101011111 0101010001 1001110101 0111010101 11110110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

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