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William Alfred, Lowell Professor of the Humanities and an expert on British literature, said the poem is definitely not Shakespeare's. "I don't think it's by Shakespeare at all, and if it is by Shakespeare, he wrote it in the sixth grade," Alfred said...
Taylor was quoted as saying that several pieces of evidence support the claim that the poem is Shakespeare's. The volume in which he found it, dating to the 1630's, contains no other errors in attribution of poems, he said...
...poem was written in an internal rhyme style, which means that words rhyme within each line--a style Shakespeare had not previously used. Because Shakespeare was a frequent innovator, his use of a different style indicates further that he might have written it, Taylor said...
Moreover, the poem also includes several phrases nearly identical to passages in "Romeo and Juliet," Taylor added...
...poem proves to be Shakespeare's, it would reportedly be the first addition to his body of works since the 17th century...