This is an analysis of the poem The Black Cottage that begins with:

We chanced in passing by that afternoon
To catch it in a sort of special picture...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdecffgaXdhiijkkjiXchXkkjjXcXldaikcjacjcmafdjbcdnaojkbgpehhiccmqqicjXpjiqbfpjamihollchqjqmbXgjaoqbijhppqjcpXXibqiqganfdqoccic
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 127,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11001011101 01000101010 0111010101 1110010111 0101010100 01010101110 11010100101 1101001101 1110010111 1101011100 10111011010 0110110001 1110010101 111100011111 10001110111 01110110100 1111011101 1101110101 1111011011 0001100111 10111101100 0101111101 1001110101 1100111000 1101011101 111111011 1011011111 0101010111 011000111001 1010010100 11110011000 11010101001 10001010001 11010001010 0101001111 1111110101 1111010101 1111000101 1011111101 1011010111 1100010001 1111110100 1110110101 1111110101 0111010101 01011100111 1111011011 1111010100 0101111111 0101110011 1101010010110 1111111100 11001101000 1101010111 1101010111 01010101010 1101011001 1101011101 01101110111 0101110100 11110101110 1010110101 0011010111 1011000100 1011010101 0001010001 01101101011 11010101010 1001010100 1101010100 11010101110 1101000101 1111010111 1001010001 1101011101 11110111010 11110111001 1011100011 1101010101 111100101010 1111001011 1100010001 0001111101 1111101101 1011010001 1101110001 1111010101 11110101010 11110101110 010111111011 00110010001 10010111111 1111011100 01011000010 11110011001 111100010011 11011011111 10010101110 1011010001 1011011100 1011110001 1011000101 11010111111 0111111111 1111010001 1001010001 1001011101 0011011101 1001111101 010110011010 1111110111 1101100101 11011101010 00111101110 1100110011 1101010101 1111001101 0101000111 10010111110 111100100 110110010100 1111000011 0110010011 01111100101 11100111011 1111110100 11011111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5440
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1058
  • Amount of lines: 127
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, they, by, she, it, of, i, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, and, i are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines war, church are repeated).

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  • summary of The Black Cottage;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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