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Amoretti: Sonnet XL

Edmund Spenser

Literary period: Elizabethan
Date published: 1595

Total stanzas1
Total lines14
Total words112
Total unique words88
Total syllables140
Total stressed syllables69
Total slack syllables71
Total phonemes371
Total unique phonemes41
Total stressed phonemes201
Total slack phonemes170