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Love’s Deity

John Donne

Literary period: Elizabethan

Total stanzas4
Total lines28
Total words228
Total unique words133
Total syllables273
Total stressed syllables135
Total slack syllables138
Total phonemes718
Total unique phonemes41
Total stressed phonemes388
Total slack phonemes330